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Re:The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse w... by Jtsummers on Friday March 31, 2023 @08:44PM (#35395782)
An undocumented change to a core system behavior that fundamentally altered how (likely) most applications behaved in an unanticipated (for the users of the system and programmers targeting the system) way. That's malpractice.
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Re:The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse w... by wilg on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:32PM (#35396100)
Yeah, I don't buy that. Too much Monday-morning quarterbacking.

I'm not against some well-thought-through standards for certain safety-critical applications, but it's got to be a lot better than "maybe code would be better if we threatened to throw engineers in jail for contributing to complex and subtle interdependent bugs that caused a privacy bug that didn't have a significant real-world impact".

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