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I find it utterly bizarre that an engineer/team competent enough to reverse engineer iMessage can release such a shitshow. Almost parody level. Is this some sort of weird “they trust me, dumb fucks” social experiment?
I find it utterly bizarre that an engineer/team competent enough to reverse engineer iMessage can release such a shitshow. Almost parody level. Is this some sort of weird “they trust me, dumb fucks” social experiment?
>"Sunbird actually logged and stored messages in plain text on both the error reporting software Sentry and in a Firebase store. Authentication tokens were sent over unencrypted HTTP so this token could be intercepted and used to read your messages" Which product manager in his/her right mind, thought this was passable when you're building and marketing your product as an iMessage alternative and every single early a…
> How do these managers get jobs in these big name companies? Nothing is very far from what I would consider a "big name company" They are actually a really small joint venture between Carl Pei and Teenage Engineering. This whole iMessage fiasco is exactly why I have such a hard time taking Carl seriously in anything he does. He seems more concerned with creating hype through smoke and mirrors than in releasing anyth…
>"Sunbird actually logged and stored messages in plain text on both the error reporting software Sentry and in a Firebase store. Authentication tokens were sent over unencrypted HTTP so this token could be intercepted and used to read your messages" Which product manager in his/her right mind, thought this was passable when you're building and marketing your product as an iMessage alternative and every single early a…
> How do these managers get jobs in these big name companies? Nothing is very far from what I would consider a "big name company" They are actually a really small joint venture between Carl Pei and Teenage Engineering. This whole iMessage fiasco is exactly why I have such a hard time taking Carl seriously in anything he does. He seems more concerned with creating hype through smoke and mirrors than in releasing anyth…
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> Which product manager in his/her right mind, thought this was passable when you're building and marketing your product as an iMessage alternative and every single early access reviewer raised these exact security concerns in public? Why are we blaming PMs, here? Plenty of engineers out there make really stupid decisions every day. (To be clear: I'm an engineer, not a PM.)
>Why are we blaming PMs, here? Plenty of engineers out there make really stupid decisions every day. EXACTLY! Because it's a known fact all devs make mistakes, and as such, as a product manager/owner you're responsible for the bigger picture of the product and ensuring the right requirements, checks and bound are put in palce and validated for a successful product release. It's not the job of the lowly SW engineers w…
>"Sunbird actually logged and stored messages in plain text on both the error reporting software Sentry and in a Firebase store. Authentication tokens were sent over unencrypted HTTP so this token could be intercepted and used to read your messages" Which product manager in his/her right mind, thought this was passable when you're building and marketing your product as an iMessage alternative and every single early a…
> Which product manager in his/her right mind, thought this was passable when you're building and marketing your product as an iMessage alternative and every single early access reviewer raised these exact security concerns in public? Why are we blaming PMs, here? Plenty of engineers out there make really stupid decisions every day. (To be clear: I'm an engineer, not a PM.)
The other story people are missing here is that even if this wasn't a security issue, iMessage is adopting RCS next year, so the whole blue/green bubble thing will become much less relevant.
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So interesting that the same event has several spins right now: - OpenAI is nothing without Sam Altman - OpenAI is nothing without its workers (following Sam Altman) - OpenAI is nothing without its workers (Sam Altman is just a figurehead) A glitch in the Matrix?
Without commenting on the purpose and goal of the organizing, it is a display of worker leverage gained through organizing