Classic example of an amateur vs a professional mentality.
The company is probably a paper route that never gets the little orange rain bags on...
This "I have no time for quality just gimmie the money, and if you want to do good work, you're fired" attitude will work for a short time. That is, until your customers want changes or mods to the code, and you're left with 40,000 lines of 3 dimensional arrays and regular expressions just to print a web page. All this pain because some goob thought it made him look smarter to write cryptic code that no one else could read, and left you high and dry when he bolted because you wouldn't buy him a company laptop.
If you run a business like that, I would imagine you do have customers calling often. Probably to complain about the lack of quality when the product doesn't perform as designed.
Oh, wait.... You don't invest in design, documentation, or anything that takes time from delivering something importaint like a bad product. nevermind.
Another fine example of "Trustworthy Computing"...
Unique ID's, Logs of activity, hmm... Suuuuuuure I trust you...
How could anyone effectively use the information if it was not able to be sent or fetched? The statement that they have not ruled out marketing should hint that it is accessable, or will be. Another chip off the rock of personal privacy in the name of big business marketing.
You have 2 choices. Blow it off, and say nah they wouldn't do that, or wait 6 months until it is discovered that it (and more) actually IS able to be read by or sent to others without unchecking 32 boxes in a certain order on 12 configuration tabs while reciting the EULA backwards.
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The company is probably a paper route that never gets the little orange rain bags on...
This "I have no time for quality just gimmie the money, and if you want to do good work, you're fired" attitude will work for a short time. That is, until your customers want changes or mods to the code, and you're left with 40,000 lines of 3 dimensional arrays and regular expressions just to print a web page. All this pain because some goob thought it made him look smarter to write cryptic code that no one else could read, and left you high and dry when he bolted because you wouldn't buy him a company laptop.
If you run a business like that, I would imagine you do have customers calling often. Probably to complain about the lack of quality when the product doesn't perform as designed.
Oh, wait.... You don't invest in design, documentation, or anything that takes time from delivering something importaint like a bad product. nevermind.
Another fine example of "Trustworthy Computing"...
Unique ID's, Logs of activity, hmm... Suuuuuuure I trust you...
How could anyone effectively use the information if it was not able to be sent or fetched? The statement that they have not ruled out marketing should hint that it is accessable, or will be. Another chip off the rock of personal privacy in the name of big business marketing.
You have 2 choices. Blow it off, and say nah they wouldn't do that, or wait 6 months until it is discovered that it (and more) actually IS able to be read by or sent to others without unchecking 32 boxes in a certain order on 12 configuration tabs while reciting the EULA backwards.