{"id":78,"date":"2008-01-30T20:13:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T03:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-01-30T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T03:13:23","slug":"howd-it-get-through-qa-and-why-didnt-they-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/01\/30\/howd-it-get-through-qa-and-why-didnt-they-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;d it get through QA &#8212; and why didn&#8217;t they fix it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/blog\/?p=18\">Over on <em>Tales from the Net<\/em><\/a>, I&#8217;ve been discussing Kevin Poulsen&#8217;s articles about a MySpace security bug that allowed access to photos in profiles that had been marked as &#8220;private&#8221;.   It had been well known for months, but MySpace didn&#8217;t fix it until the day after Kevin&#8217;s first article.  In the interim, somebody wrote an automated script to download photos, and released 500,000 of them on the BitTorrent p2p network.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s social network-related, I posted about over there, but it&#8217;s on topic here as well, so I figured I&#8217;d mention it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Tales from the Net, I&#8217;ve been discussing Kevin Poulsen&#8217;s articles about a MySpace security bug that allowed access to photos in profiles that had been marked as &#8220;private&#8221;. It had been well known for months, but MySpace didn&#8217;t fix it until the day after Kevin&#8217;s first article. In the interim, somebody wrote an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[202,232,275,286,313,325],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional","category-social-sciences","tag-liability","tag-myspace","tag-privacy","tag-qa","tag-security","tag-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}