Re:Death to Lorem Ipsum – The story behind our app, Lorem Ip...
by arethuza on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @05:20AM
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Indeed, in '98 our application was put onto an IBM demo disk of Java applications - we were a VC funded startup and I was the CTO.
After we had sent them the stuff to include on the disk a very worried developer came to me and told me that "some of <deleted>'s test data went to IBM". The test data in question had been sourced from some particularly unpleasant alt. newsgroups.
I had a genuine "my career is over" moment...
Turns out that the only data that got sent out was a reference to the word "sheep" in an search index. That was all.
I've tended to be quite careful about test data since then.
After we had sent them the stuff to include on the disk a very worried developer came to me and told me that "some of <deleted>'s test data went to IBM". The test data in question had been sourced from some particularly unpleasant alt. newsgroups.
I had a genuine "my career is over" moment...
Turns out that the only data that got sent out was a reference to the word "sheep" in an search index. That was all.
I've tended to be quite careful about test data since then.