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by slackoverflower 2952 days ago
FYI All your subscriber's emails are accessible at https://whiteboardfree.com/email_subscribers.json since you didn't put any authentication on those endpoints. It's a basic Rails app so I'm guessing other users may got a hold of the list already.
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I guess their Privacy Policy checks out https://whiteboardfree.com/privacy
This is a pretty crummy wait to disclose a security vulnerability.

Yeah, this one is pretty bad. But let’s try to do better, not worse.

So you're telling me that someone who created a site to post job adverts for jobs that don't test programming skills, has managed to write a security vulnerability into the site? Never!

I don't agree with making candidates write algorithms they don't need to know in a format that they don't need to be able to write them, but I am in favour of testing candidates thoroughly.