And if this was in the first version, everybody would understand. If it’s still in version 5, it’s by design.
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fubo@lemmy.world 8 months agoOr maybe they engineered a “multifunction” device with shitty error handling: if any subsystem has an error, all subsystems fail. A junior engineer filed a bug report about it and submitted a patch. The PM didn’t consider the bug launch-critical enough to merit an engineer’s time to review the patch. The system shipped with the bug intact. The PM was rewarded for launching the product on time, and got promoted into a different position. A year later when the users start fussing, the people on the team say “we never heard of that problem.”
(This is hypothetical. Tech companies do be like that sometimes though.)
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
mwguy@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Just because they accidentally made ransomware doesn’t make it not ransomware.
fubo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly, yeah. The incentives within the company generate shitty behavior towards users, even if no individual wrote out a design for that shitty behavior.