who here has worked for a bank?

without naming names? what was the scariest thing they did, like, bad code, bad security, etc, that you had to fix

always wanted to be a fly on the wall of the devs office for a bank...

A big bank have a team who spend a *lot* of time making their app and APIs very hard to reverse engineer, except they are playing cat and mouse with a very small company who are successful every time at RE.

Have you heard about NDA?

It stands for non disclosure agreement.
Anyone working for a bank hopefully signed one. For the sake of the bank and it's customers.

As a thought, Id love to know... My other side tells me that's its information better kept to those who need it

i mean

don't have to say anything too specific, or name anyone, or whatever

there's ways to say things that are vague enough that you said nothing, but said something, you know

anyway, guys, these are banks, they hold our money, and they screw us...

until one day when (This never happens) and all our economic activity is handled by some kind of global block chain (which will never happen)

we are slaves to them

so, let's hear the dirt people!

@rant1ng That is literally as much I can say and I haven't even worked for one. But around and about.

It's probably more strict for people who actually work at the banks. But who knows. Maybe there is some bank with lax security out there 🤷‍♂️

- It took a regular dev to point out that it wasn't secure sending credentials in plain text over XHR for a joint promotion

- A planned data center move was undone because the new floor (literally) couldn't hold the weight of the machines. Internal server access was down for 3 days.

- Business persons wanted to have us build a webform that consisted of n times 16 required fields, where n was from 1 to 20, and n could again be part of x (from 1-20). So potentially a customer/employee would have to fill in 20*20*16 (=6400) questions

Got more, but these are some funny ones I think

@webketje

lol... nice.

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Think if your grandpa wanted to use computer for his job.

Bankers still want to use paper and don't understand the capabilities of web and computers

@pmso

when they bring in their rolled up pennies and nickels, banks should inform them of their new policy that they can only give bitcoin for change

that reaction should then be video taped and put on youtube