Wayback Machine / Internet Archive (archive.org) is superf*cked. Multiple breaches, limited service now, users suddenly getting emails from some random ass guy. This seems like an op--can't imagine how a major site can have such bad security / no loss prevention strategy / recovery. Very bad
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FIFTH GEN WARFARE
I can 100% believe they had bad security and no strategy.
A disturbing amount of major companies while they have nice and slick forward facing UIs. The backend is a hodgepodge of spaghetti code, ancient systems, and code written in archaic languages only a literal handful of people still alive can understand. Let alone code in. Stitched together by Duct Tape, The software code equivalent of Black Magic, happy thoughts. And coders fueled by Massive amounts of Caffeine, Spite, and perhaps a bit of self-loathing.
It costs a lot to keep systems up to date. And upgraded. So it regularly falls far behind on the budget.
I am never shocked by anything like this.
Computer security is literally no different than the TSA, it’s all theater.
Just like the TSA, people in charge of security don’t even want to get better, their primary objective is saving money. Doing a good job is never a high priority
Ain’t that the Truth. I’ve lost count of the amount of Jobs where a refusal to spend money on improvements and new equipment in the short term. Blew up in the Owners or executives face. And ultimately cost them more in the long run than implementing the proposed upgrades and changes they refused in the first place would have cost.
Kek
Absolutely!
My uncle built a system for a large warehouse wholesaler in a minor European country in the 1980's and devoted the last 35 years of his career to maintaining it past retirement age. Over the years technology improved and the front end got more sophisticated but underneath it got more and more janky. They tried to move to a system based on SAP but the whiz kids they hired to set it up made a dogs dinner and in the end they were still using his system. In the end they found someone to hand it off to who shadowed him for 2 years to learn its ins and outs. It was supposed to be phased out in 2023 about 5 years after he retired but its still running and every once in a blue moon he goes in for an afternoon to troubleshoot something particularly vexxing. Last time he went in the guy who maintains it told him it will be at least a decade before its retired at the rate things are going there. My uncle is 76 and has survived cancer. Its likely this system will outlive him and if it suffers any serious errors it may simply not work all of a sudden.