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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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