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She was mostly looking for validation, since the guys in the group thought that hashing the passwords on an online banking application is waste of time, and the best way to handle login is to send the whole user database to the front-end so you can match the unhashed password to the correct account

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

send the whole user database to the front-end so you can match the unhashed password to the correct account

anyone this dumb will probably also leave themselves as the bagholder when they inevitably fuck up security on prod somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Luckily they won't get hired for anything serious (or non-serious)

IT studies are unfortunately full of people who took "learn to code" to heart the worst way possible

They go through their studies learning only the surface level shit, because they are interested in the salary, not the work

In the end they end up with neither and a degree they can't utilize

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

In the end they end up ~~with neither and a degree they can't utilize~~ as a Delivery Manager for a software consulting firm that charges 5X what their clients' regular employees make