Software development jobs are too accessible. Jobs with access to/control over millions of people's data should require some kind of genuine software engineering certification, and there should be business-cratering fines for something as egregious as completely ignoring security reports. It is ridiculous how we've completely normalised leaks like this on a weekly or almost-daily basis.
morpheuskafka2 hours ago | | | parent | | on: 47772240
They may be part of it, but as a publicly traded company, there's got to be a at least a few people there with a fancy pedigree (not that that actually means they are good at their job or care). But if such a test existed, they presumably would have passed it.

They also have an ISO 27001 certificate (they try to claim a bunch of AWSs certs by proxy on their security page, which is ironic as they say AWS stores most of their data while apparently all uploads are on this).

Loughla2 hours ago | | | parent | | on: 47772240
Teachers have to be licensed and keep up on licensing.

Plumbers. Electricians. Lawyers. Doctors. Hell, I have to get a license to run my own business.

Why shouldn't software come with a branch for licenses if you're working with sensitive data?

coldtea1 hour ago | | | parent | | on: 47772565
We're going the other way: now any random vibe coded slop is the norm.
fnimick2 hours ago | | | parent | | on: 47772240
At least I'm sure LLM tools deploying code to production won't result in this happening more frequently. "Make sure it's secure. Make no mistakes."