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Micah Lee: Hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. (bsky.app)

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder if this was a form of sabotage by an engineer, or regular incompetence

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[–] ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I'd like to live in a world in which the former is the case, but as an engineer I have seen some shit

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Hanlon's razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

But, also, Grey's law:

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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