Re:Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
by marrone12 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:49PM
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This is bad advice. If you accidentally leave personally identifiable healthcare information on some random stage server and that server gets hacked, that is a federal crime. If the data and application code are very intertwined (likely in a pre-SOA era), it can be very difficult to version control code completely isolated from PII.
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> If you accidentally leave personally identifiable healthcare information on some random stage server and that server gets hacked, that is a federal crime.
Not sure how that relates to Version Control? I personally don't put production (real) data on staging servers to begin with; always scrub your production clones or generate data for testing instances.
> If the data and application code are very intertwined (likely in a pre-SOA era), it can be very difficult to version control code completely isolated from PII.
Maybe I am naive (never had to work on DOS), but shouldn't the data be in a database/datastore/data directory that can be ignored by source control?
Huh? Why would the code have medical data in it?