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by cm2187 3624 days ago
The other thing is with a company the size of citigroup (250,000 employees), it is statically impossible not to have:

- incompetent and/or careless employees and managers

- dishonnest employees

- computer bugs, glitches, clerical errors

If you take down a large corporation every time you find any of these, there will be no corporation left within a year. Just small companies that were statistically lucky to have neither of those that particular year.

Name me a program, any program (other than Hello World) where no bug has never been found!
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eru 3624 days ago
They had this bug for more than a decade. They should have systems in place to look for these things.

People make mistakes, but these mistakes should be caught before they get into production. And the ones that still make it into production should be hunted.

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cm2187 3624 days ago
Should we discuss about all the 15 years old bugs that are found in Windows, Linux and MacOS which are well into production (and many of them critical bugs that affect the core of the product)? Has a software company ever been fined or held liable for bugs in its products? In fact too often, bug fixes are paid updates.

Financial companies are held to extraordinary standards, and in my opinion it's a game they cannot win.

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tremon 3624 days ago
This is not a minor bug, this is a bug that caused data to be misrepresented. If you want to compare it to OS bugs, then you need to look at silent data corruption: how many data corruption bugs have gone undetected in operating systems for 15 years?
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lmm 3624 days ago
The notorious (and still disputed) HFS+ bit-rot issues?
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cm2187 3624 days ago
You mean a server OS leaking kernel memory to any external connection doing something special with TLS without leaving any audit trail that this happened is a minor bug?

We could talk about the OS driver shit show too!

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saiya-jin 3624 days ago
this is unbelievably naive comment... do you work in IT? 15 year old bugs are nothing special, with known ones having workarounds implemented (often buggy), or just some completely new happening on broken data feed, unexpected values etc. the list is endless
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