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by gibbitz
602 days ago
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I agree with the previous post here. In general garbage code hasn't broken a company I've worked for either. A couple of cents I'd throw in, though: Security holes are a marker of poor quality code and depending on the business sector that can break a business (healthcare, net security, VPN etc.). I don't have a clear case in mind, but it seems plausible. JavaScript is fine as a language, the problem is the proficiency and understanding developers writing it have. I've seen terrible .NET and Java code that is just as bad as any JavaScript code I've encountered and the common denominator has always been outsourcing. Having worked for a consultancy in the past, I know they pass iOS developers as React Developers to get contracts and vice-versa. You can bet the code they write isn't the best. If it helps, this doesn't end at software. It happens in all sectors due to the pull of profits. Remember the Yugo? |
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Even then, I doubt it really matters. Lastpass is still around, and their whole business is security. RSA too. Microsoft is still around. Facebook had major breaches in the early days. Uber too. The credit monitoring bureaus get hacked and leak all your data, and that really happens is a tiny fine and you get like 3 months of free credit monitoring.
Shitty code is so common, and modern computers and networks are so complicated, that every big company gets hacked and zero-dayed and social engineered all the time now, and they pay some fine and send a few emails and then it's business as usual.
Everyone says they take security super seriously, but I can't think of a single company that really suffered from a breach...