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Re:The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabil... by lnsru on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @04:47AM (#17344808)
That’s wrong. An engineer has a couple managers above. Product, project, platform manager. You name it. Engineer is just another blue collar worker nowadays. No decision making power. I was not allowed to save company $40k, they told that numbers shouldn’t interest me. If management says, we need no encryption and authentifition, it’s totally ok. I just print their emails with this statement for later.
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Re:The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabil... by dpark on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:16AM (#17346269)
Engineering is absolutely not blue collar, but this has nothing to do with the issue you’re facing. If you found an opportunity to save $40k and they said you shouldn’t care about numbers, then either you have poor management or there’s more to the story that you didn’t share. At the very least competent management should have been able to explain why saving the $40k was the wrong trade off.
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Re:The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabil... by lnsru on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:46AM (#17347730)
Yes, competent management. Didn’t experienced much companies having it. With competent management I could save my salary for couple years in this project alone. The client ist other branch of the same company. I could design a pcb with components for our needs, instead of that management wants to go with expensive 3rd party module having all bells and whistles on it.

Edit: pcb design is risky. But the system is very primitive having voltage regulator and single integrated circuit in it. I doubt this department with current performance would survive as independent company.

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Re:The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabil... by consp on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:00AM (#17346649)
If you can save 40k and they don't care. Ask for a 40k raise and if they say they don't have the money ... well ... you know where to get it.
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Re:The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabil... by rapsey on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:54AM (#17345139)
Managers get their cues from engineers. Electronics companies obviously mostly have electronics engineers and they run the engineering side.
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Re:The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabil... by est on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:07AM (#17344928)
> Product, project, platform manager

you'd be surprised to learn how many pieces of code were designed, written and shipped by one man army.

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