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Maybe an attempt at security without having any knowledge whatsoever and Googling "[language of your choice] cryptography".
I think if they really wanted it to be safe they'd use this and HTTPS, but the fact that it's running on HTTP tells me they have not a single clue...
Everything is right there in their docs, so it's not really obscure.
I'd bet these people actually believe they're following best practices
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On the plus side, they can't hack into it if they already killed themselves
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Sander Rossel wrote: I can tell you one thing, these people aren't pro's Are they getting paid?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I guess so, which makes them professionals, but I'd argue professional bunglers or even scammers, because no way in hell someone who is worth his salt would write this giant turd of an API
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Yeah, this is them thinking "obscurity and complexity" equals "security".
The problem is they are dependent on their customers to "roll their own" implementation of the client-side code, then depending on the customer to keep that code and keys secured themselves.
Absolute garbage.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Yeah, this is them thinking "obscurity and complexity" equals "security". I wonder if they thought about it at all
If they really wanted security, why not do this and use HTTPS?
It's not even that obscure because it's right there in their docs.
These people may actually think this is good practice
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Quote: "Sure, what do you need?"
This is the point where you lost me!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Hahaha nice.
Real programmers use butterflies
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This little wanderjahr in the wilderness of mind and imagination, was written twenty years ago, when bill was at his last full-time gig as programmer; his employer, a software company (gaming) which dreamed of (hallucinated ?) glory in "business visualization space"— which shall remain nameless.
i had not been there a full year and, if i quit, would not receive the hiring bonus. When the day came for the inevitable lay-offs, i reacted with joy, at first, since i'd get the bonus, and i'd escape what was, for me, not really interesting work in a culture (gung-ho mass gaming) i didn't care about, and, couldn't relate to
Then, i felt regret: the man (also laid off) who got me the job was an old friend, a genius i'd worked with at Adobe inventing what became Acrobat; he had a family, he had bought a house in the area. And, there were people at the company i cared about.
i felt guilty for feeling happy as some of the bright young lay-off-ees around me were crying, or raging.
As often, in this life, i turned to writing to— uhhh— try and distill sense from chaos.
Hope you enjoy the story !
published under the CPOPL (CodeProject Open Poetic License) license, © copyright assigned to CodeProjectcoffee on another day of apocalypse
the return of the sun made me feel like i wanted to put on a parade, to welcome an old friend come back wrapped in a flag for heroic deeds in foreign wars.
i would line the streets with children holding the tiny banners of love's small triumphs, waving.
this waking fantasy, i soon enough realized as my first few sips of coffee pulled me up from the depths where my psyche was a temporary master of all realities, was—
but, may i just mention —before proceeding to the inevitable juicy stuff—
there was a nice melodic resonance there at the last rung of the ladder coming out of that turquoise pool of the factory of memories— a hint of Neil Young's immortal chorus "we are stardust, we are golden—"
— yeah, kind of a sixties' thing.
but, there was nothing sixtyish in the strong probability that lay ahead this day: no "band playing in my head"— even though I thought of the image of "living in a burned out basement" so many times, so many ways.
well, if there was a band, it would have been one of those state funeral type brigades of black-hatted shuffling military zombies where one muted trumpet yowls over the slow harmonic swells of tubas and French horns.
because today was the day— now it became all too clear—
— sounds of arctic ice floes breaking up—
that today i would probably be re-assigned, fired, re-orged, turned inside out by an organizational psychodrama that i long had seen coming, and which had very little to do, actually, with this particular bag of dreams and his mid-life cultivated computer chops.
and, as i accepted this, as i dropped the smoking gun of my all too strong ability to spend far too long buying tchotchkes in the visitors' center of the game preserves of endangered metaphors—
i wondered why my coffee tasted so damn good.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I remember on corporate parting of the ways where in five minutes my thoughts went from
"How dare they?"
"What am I going to do?"
"Hey, my stomach doesn't hurt anymore!"
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Exactly.
Leaving a toxic work environment/company has healed my body and mind in profound ways. It still amazes me how detrimental to one's health, negative stress is.
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I was laid off from a major US bank. My reaction surprised my boss and his boss, as I didn't care. The environment was so toxic that all I felt was relief.
Sometimes we have no idea how much stress we are under until that stress is removed.
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Novell used to have layoffs every November (to boost Q4 earnings.) One November morning in the early 1990s, I arrive for work and stopped to chat with someone. I'm not sure why I realized there was a layoff going on, perhaps it was the funereal silence and odd phone calls. So, I decided not to go to my office, for about an hour.
My manager finally ordered me to and I got a call from HR asking me to come down there with my manager. Yup, they insisted that HR make the call, not your manager. The best part; while I was having my exit interview, they were "onboarding" new employees in the next offices/cubicles.
There's more weirdness, but it was one of the few times I got a severance package! (The classic, "say you quit and we'll give you six weeks pay" and, by the way, you were due an 8% raise in October, here's a check for extra pay you didn't get.)
That company was such a mess. Though they had really good engineers and their direct managers (just awful middle management and a nice CEO who didn't realize his top people were back stabbers.)
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Company I worked from long ago did layoffs. Then a week latter announced a record quarter.
One of the people they laid off was on vacation, when they were laid off. They had to bring in a contractor to do her job - immediately. It was key position. No one else could do it. The contractor could not do the job, at all. I had to repeatedly walk them through the very well documented process multiple times. About a month later they brought her back on to do the same job - as a contractor. I suspect she ended up getting paid more.
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At a previous job there were some issues around bonusses being paid out. Long story short, after complaints we were called into a meeting. The boss had some envelopes and I immediately had a feeling about what they were. Sure enough, they were retrenchment letters. I ended up leaving and thankfully found a new job.
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Horrible smell around site (7)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Horrible
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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YAUT well done I wasn't entirely sure about this one.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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xkcd: Universal Seat Belt[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Surely, that can only be used on a data bus???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Not without bidirectional bus drivers[^]! Be a little bit more inclusive!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's for water cooled computers.
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