[HN Gopher] Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
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Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
Author : qword
Score : 34 points
Date : 2023-04-30 21:46 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| Nihilartikel wrote:
| Reading things like this reinforces the satisfaction of being
| independent...
|
| When I inevitably notice these issues in the course of work for a
| client I can bring them up with the one writing the checks.. if
| they want it fixed, I fix it. If they don't, well there are other
| clients.
| RobotToaster wrote:
| In some ways it seems related to Goodhart's law
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
| throwawaysleep wrote:
| I am basically that employee in several ways.
|
| I know about wasteful cloud spend that I do nothing about. My
| last comment on HN actually was asking if anyone could give me a
| reason to report that cloud waste. The best arguments were for
| the sake of the environment and to build credibility with co-
| workers to make it easier to jump ship. Nothing from the company
| at all.
|
| I can't say I deliberately ship bugs, but I don't care that much
| about eliminating them. If I were not worried about legal issues,
| I would investigate whether we had a bug bounty program and give
| them to a friend to collect and split the prize.
|
| And yes, I use the same password at my multiple full time jobs.
| If you knew my email, you could find that password in a password
| leak on the internet. So my password has already leaked. It is
| out there, tied to my name.
|
| > This group of people seem to have been like that at some point
| in time, and then turned to "misbehaving" in this manner.
|
| I was like that. I like creating stuff. I like building great
| experiences. But working as a corporate employee is an extra
| painful way to do it in many cases. I enjoy finding weird bugs
| and figuring out the fixes. But everything from the Scrum to the
| layoffs to the executives trying to drag you in for corporate
| team building events to the non-technicals who don't have a clue
| what you do makes it not worth it to engage at work. The project
| you care about will be carelessly tossed away in a reorg. You
| will be judged based on output report from Jira, which is
| actually an incentive to ship as many bugs as possible because
| that increases the number of Scrum points you have done.
|
| Is that really what you want for your life? Sounds miserable to
| me. I want out. And I do all those things to get out as soon as
| possible.
|
| So what is the endgame? Spend time working on cool things myself
| while doing all I can to minimize time work takes from my life.
| Cut every corner to save effort, from the passwords to the utter
| eradication of any speck of initiative. Work multiple full time
| jobs to accelerate progress to retirement and slash output at
| those jobs to make way to even more jobs, further accelerating my
| workforce exit.
| kiratp wrote:
| For nothing else than the sake of "life is about the journey",
| please consider changing your job. It is absolutely possible to
| align paid employment with fulfillment.
| gammabetadelta wrote:
| we all play games
|
| if your game let's you do this without guilt then good on you
|
| but, maybe there's a better route than escape...
|
| turn work into something worth doing
| fideloper wrote:
| There's no black or white here.
|
| You'll be on both sides of this depending on your phase of life
| and the incentive structure at work.
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