I think that’s less about “hacking” and more about modern day devs being overworked by their hot-shit team lead and clueless PMs and creating “temporary” solutions that become permanent in the long run.

This bucket was probably something they set up early in the dev cycle so they could iterate components without needing to implement an auth system first and then got rushed into releasing before it could be fixed. That’s almost always how this stuff happens; whether it’s a core element or a rushed DR test.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

modern day devs being overworked

And then there is meningspunktet.dk which had all the time in the world to do whatever they wanted, and even get their hosting paid for by a university. They still leaked everyones email, phone, full legal name and location on day one and only fixed it because I pointed it out.

https://drkt.eu/files/ramblings/meningspunktet-dk.html

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the writeup - I can't believe they claimed anything about keeping data safe while building the website so poorly...