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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)
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[–] -4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Have you ever worked for government IT? Most of it is ages behind private sector.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    I work in the private sector and our most essential systems run on Windows Server 2012. Because the installed applications can't be migrated to anything else. After a reboot, there's 21 scripts that need to be run in a specific order (with admin rights) to get the app running again. The frontend is an http webpage that's open to the world.

    The supplier of the software is a huge global corporation, market leader in their field.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not saying there isn't crap in the private sector, but in my experience government really sucks managing IT.

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