Why DIY: interesting reddit thread

[ertyu]

Unsure if this is the right place to post this, but: a thread on reddit discussing the many and varied ways people cut corners and act unethically across many different industries. Sure strengthens the motivation to diy as much as possible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comm ... e_in_your/

Do you guys have any similar examples that may be common in your field of work?

[AnalyticalEngine]

One time, there was a project at work that handled user authentication. The database could only handle passwords that were a few characters long. So they just truncated the passwords without telling the user so that only the first part was actually saved as the password. As opposed to actually updating the DB to handle longer passwords.

[tonyedgecombe]

My bank has done that, only the first eight characters matter. It's also case insensitive which makes me wonder if they are storing the whole thing rather than a hash.

[bostonimproper]

At my colleague's former startup, they accidentally cleared the password db and backup. Rather than notifying users, they just saved the next password the user entered in the login screen as being the correct one for their account.

[ertyu]

wow.