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A comment on Ask HN: What horrifying and/or terrible things have you seen in production code?.

Re:Ask HN: What horrifying and/or terrible things have you s... by rachelandrew on Saturday June 21, 2014 @02:09AM (#7924327)
I used to do quite a bit of troubleshooting/rescuing half finished projects, or live things that had no developer involved for one reason or another.

Not that many years ago I was still seeing people storing credit card numbers in plain text files on servers, and sending them unencrypted via email.

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Re:Ask HN: What horrifying and/or terrible things have you s... by kjs3 on Saturday June 21, 2014 @08:26PM (#7926469)
> Not that many years ago I was still seeing people storing > credit card numbers in plain text files on servers, and > sending them unencrypted via email.

I've seen it in the last week. I work for an ESP, and have to continually tell customers "just because you can store CCs (or SSNs, or private account #s, etc) in our database, there's never a good reason why you should" and "PCI? Heard of it?".

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