Lol, this is a really funny take. I'm imagining Joe Biden or George Bush asking, "did you check it for supply chain vulnerabilities?"
The DoD has been hacked countless times, by children even. I wouldn't doubt if we decompiled most government apps we'd find this same vector in many of them.
It seems like this vector is only recently a hot topic. And decades of doing things wrong won't be patched and habits broken in short time. It will take a few years to get the majority of it, and decades after that to get the next majority, and so on.
Come on, you're defending a sinking ship ;). Trump might be right about a lot of things, but that doesn't make him right about everything. And he and his whole administration pretends he is. And it's just pathetic and laughable how they try to keep denying how their decisions where maybe not always the wisest or most responsible. I think that is just very unprofessional, and just plainly simply childish. And I think it's becoming more and more clear that that is actually the way it is. The worse it gets the more they go in denial and the more they blame the woke democrats for everything that's their failures. They just don't know what responsibility is and only know how to turn around the narrative to blame others and to make it seem like they're the best ever. You just can't make this stuff up. But I'm actually enjoying it, because they're falling now and they're gonna fall hard. Interesting times.
So what's your point? Because previous administrations also make mistakes, we should accept all the crap coming from the current administration? That seems to be the only defense of the Trump fans these days.
Again, I agree that pervious admins were also crap, but that isn't an excuse for the current administration. We should be critical and sceptical regardless. And I think this current admin is actually worse, even so they tried so hard (or at least pretents) to fix everything. But it's all the same, left of right, they're all fooling us, and have us fighting among each other, so we don't see what's really happening behind the stage.
Companies that sell app development don't write an app from scratch for every one of their customers. They have a template that includes basic functions that are relevant for marketing. May not be needed for everyone, but why would they bother removing it without pay? That's what you're looking at here.
It's vanilla nothing, sprinkled with your political heroes, stirred and served to you on HN.
Enjoy bro. If you liked the article, read it again. It's even more Trump related the second time!
The DoD has been hacked countless times, by children even. I wouldn't doubt if we decompiled most government apps we'd find this same vector in many of them.
It seems like this vector is only recently a hot topic. And decades of doing things wrong won't be patched and habits broken in short time. It will take a few years to get the majority of it, and decades after that to get the next majority, and so on.