regrets
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @02:41AM (#18500847)
Disclaimer: Throwaway account.
I worked on a banking product that indirectly got a couple of kids tortured and killed.
It’s only recently that I’ve started accepting responsibility for that. It was just so out of the realm of possibilities when it bappened, that most people I knew, most people I worked with, couldn’t fathom that we had something to do with it.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/apr/27/french-studen...
The product was a standalone card reader, that allows the generation of OTPs by the crypto chip inside the CC, or challenge/responses by the same chip.
This allowed the attackers to verify the PIN without going to an ATM.