Re:Amazon's homepage was down
by dsl on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:43PM
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Developers probably have access to most production systems. Credit card processing and source of truth on orders that get shipped are most likely segregated. (actually PCI dictates that physical and data access controls be in place so only essential employees can access card data)
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Re:Amazon's homepage was down
by georgemcbay on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:45PM
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Who cares if I can access the credit card processing system if I can insert random code elsewhere in the system that redirects you to my phishing page whenever you enter credit card information?
Given that you would be an Amazon employee with a solid audit trail leading back to you in that scenario, I'd say it's pretty likely you'd be caught and prosecuted rather quickly.
Re:Amazon's homepage was down
by stcredzero on Friday February 01, 2013 @01:47AM
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Yes, I and my coworkers could've sold the realtime trades of a petroleum multinational to the highest bidder, including ones that hadn't happened yet. That would've been easy, and would've been worth 100's of millions to someone. Not getting caught and having your life ruined -- that was scary and would've been hard. Now, if I was working for a sovereign power, like China, and my life was there anyhow, then pulling stuff like that in the US wouldn't be so hard.
When did amazon start selling petroleum futures?
Re:Amazon's homepage was down
by stcredzero on Friday February 01, 2013 @09:02AM
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Amazon is not a petroleum multinational. Guess again.