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by bigiain 5567 days ago
Precisely my point.

I shouldn't be hearing "Oh, the Quora skin is just a prototype", I should be hearing something like "the dev site the Quora prototype skin was being developed on was running a 6 month old branch of our engine software, check out out github history to see all the security changes made in the "production ready" branch since November".
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JeremyBanks 5567 days ago
I believe he mentioned in response to people's complaints that the site looked like Quora; I don't think he meant to relate it to security at all.
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bigiain 5567 days ago
Yeah, I suppose there was a "Quora engineers vandalized a Quora-clone site (with an xss vulnerability)" discussion going on, and my attention immediately zeros in on the xss enabled vandalization as being "the important news", and the response I saw (and commented on) was all about the "Quora clone" accusation (which I don't find very interesting).

(see my other comment downthread for clarification)

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