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Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours
tekgoblin writes "Dropbox confirmed today that for some time yesterday, any user's account was accessible without a password. The glitch was a programming error related to a code update and accounts were only vulnerable from around 1:54 pm PST to 5:46pm PST." "Only" is relative; as reader zonky puts it, "It took around 4 hours from deployment for Dropbox to notice they'd entirely broken their authentication scheme."
This is why automated regression testing is a best practice. I guess Dropbox don't test their authentication.
That would be so oldschool. We do agile development now, and the user is the tester once the unit-tests pass.
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NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Relax honey, I only left our baby alone in the bathtub for four hours.
Relax Mr. President, We only let our enemy control our nuclear arsenal for four hours
Relax Japan, we have enough battery backup for the cooling system for four hours
Relax Gulf Residents, it's only been spilling oil for four hours
Relax Public, the serial killer has only been escaped for four hours
Relax Columbine Parents, the killing spree and stand off only lasted for four hours
This is Slashdot, the start tag was posted in 1999.
A loop, by its nature, continues. If that didn't make sense, start reading this sentence again.
snap!
I don't test my code. But when I do, I do it in Production,
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.