IT:AD:Mistakes

I truly feel for Client/ of some of the following beauties…

* Security:

• Captcha:
  • easily read by machines, hard to read by humans (it suppossed to be the other way around):
    • http://svedic.org/programming/worst-captcha-ever
• The many examples of why you don't keep username/passwords/credit card info within your own infrastructure.
  • http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
  • http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8604276/Millions-affected-by-LivingSocial-cyber-attack
• Why it's important to keep trust:
  • http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8702731/Most-Kiwis-worried-about-info-security
• OMG (Missiles could be launched with 00000000):
  • http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/nearly-two-decades-nuclear-launch-code-minuteman-silos-united-states-00000000/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email

* Resources consumption/cleanup:

• Polling versus Listeners

• General: IT:AD:Design:Mistakes:How NOT to validate a date
• ORMs and Linq: IT:AD:Mistakes:It's just Stunningly Aweful
• General:Ariane Explosion
  • “Specifically a 64 bit floating point number relating to the horizontal velocity of the rocket with respect to the platform was converted to a 16 bit signed integer. “
• Sql injections:
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/15/paypal_sql_injection/

• Nothing like crippling everybody's productivity: email_policy_of_the_day