Do they not get their apps security scanned? In my experience checking all requests go over HTTPS is the first thing that the security teams check. You'd think since Equifax works with banks they'd force them to adhere to some kind of security testing.
Exactly! This is so bad. Way worse IMHO than a failed patch or default admin/admin password in terms of showing a lack of competence. Those are ops issues. This showed core issues in their ability to architect and develop secure code. This wasn't a missed patch or config file, it was flat out not knowing how to write an even remotely secure (on the wire) application.
This isn't a conspiracy theory; it's exactly what the article is arguing. Now that net neutrality might hurt Netflix rather than benefit them, not only are they not motivated to advocate for it (which, as the above comment pointed out, would not require any significant effort), but they are probably more inclined to advocate against it.
This is might be seen as an instance of "pulling the ladder up behind you".
That's not really a conspiracy theory, other than the current lack of evidence. That is just business as usual in most areas of business. It is just rare on the Internet, for reasons I don't completely understand.
I've seen it several dozen times. A solution to one of our sample tests made it out to Github and that was all she wrote. For a while we kept the same sample test as a honeypot, but disqualifying half of the candidates for cheating was tiring.
Not the city - certainly nothing that's can be solved by city hall. But tech as a whole, and even moreso in SF specifically, is a pretty hostile-to-mental-health place to work. Everyone being shitty to themselves (and those around them) because of the 1-in-a-some-large-number-here chance of becoming an instant millionaire.
