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Writing new software is easy. Maintaining large, existing codebases for mission-critical software is hard. Banks were early adopters; there's fifty year old cod
by eli 12y ago
Writing new software is easy. Maintaining large, existing codebases for mission-critical software is hard. Banks were early adopters; there's fifty year old code that does some things extremely well, but also sometimes results in user-facing quirks like oddly limited password fields.
- joesmo 12y agoGood point. Assuming that the offending code is the actual password storage rather than an intermediary subsystem, one can safely make the assumption that such password storage is insecure. Which isn't much of a revelation, considering the article.
- eli 12y agoMaybe true, but I've learned not to make assumptions about how large & complex systems work based only on the little piece I can see from the outside.