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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by gnode on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @05:33AM (#17345031)
There may have been. The article speaks of the employee using "false usernames". Code review may stop some foolish person pushing broken code, but it's not going to prevent a determined saboteur who's masquerading as other authorised users.
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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by pvaldes on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:09AM (#17345212)
How the saboteur knew the passwords of all those users before?

If it was a totally new user, shouldn't the system have a list of approved users and a strict protocol to validate a new user?

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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by falsedan on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:23AM (#17345292)
I'm baffled at your lack of imagination, but: keyloggers, unlocked terminals, API token sniffing from cookies, reactivated old accounts, changing the reviewing account id in the database, …
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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by XorNot on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @08:04AM (#17345777)
"Hey Ed my password expired, can you use yours to get this done just now..."
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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by pvaldes on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:17AM (#17346278)
One or two times maybe, repeating the trick a lot of times with multiple people without ringing any bell, seem less probable statistically.
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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by hfdgiutdryg on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:07AM (#17346191)
I'm baffled at your lack of imagination

What does being rude add to the discussion?

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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by falsedan on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:22AM (#17347491)
Sorry. This was the polite phrasing I came up with…
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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by pvaldes on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:12AM (#17346240)
Thanks for the reply :-)
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