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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by icedchai on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:59AM (#19453869)
Perhaps not in more mature organizations, but it's standard practice at every startup I've ever worked for. One place had the dev office VPN'd into production at all times.
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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by glenneroo on Thursday March 21, 2019 @12:38PM (#19454322)
Did any of those startups have 200-600 million users?
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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by icedchai on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:41PM (#19455114)
No, these were small organizations. I'm just saying it's not uncommon. Sadly, some places don't even have a dev environment...
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