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> This is exactly what the auditor is doing. The auditor was asked to do it and is being paid to do it. Presumably, the people arguing are paid to implement the will of those that pay them. At some point people need to stop arguing and do what they're paid to do or quit. Doing this over wanting to use MD5 seems a pretty poor choice of a hill to die on. > This is a really fast one, md5 is fine here, you didn't check t…
> do what they're paid to do or quit. I'm paid to tell idiots where to go. My boss doesn't pay me 6 figures to toe the line and fill in boxes. She pays me to use my judgement to move the company forward. I'm not wasting my time and her money on this sort of garbage and if they can't see the difference between casual use and secure use them we need to rethink our relationship with this company or they need to send us…
I've very specifically couched all my recommendations for this for when it's trivial to do. Arguing about this with someone instead of doing it, when doing it may have some benefits but really only costs a few minutes instead of just doing so is definitely wasting her time and money.
> You just used the line "do what you're told or quit".
I noted what I wished people would do in very specific cases where they're wasting way too much time and effort to win a stupid argument rather than make a small change of dubious, not possibly not zero, positive security impact.
I don't see anything weird about acknowleding some of the extreme traits of the culture I live in while also wishing they would change, at least in specific cases where I think they do more harm than good.
Honestly, I'm confused why you would even make some cognitive leap that since I live in an area with a specific culture I must act in the manner I described that culture, especially when I did it in a denigrating way. I guess you think all Americans must be the same? That doesn't seem a useful way to interact with people.