The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot to Check Passwords (2014) [video]

The 2011 Dropbox incident that Tom references: https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...

It astounds me that people continue to use Dropbox after that incident. That day they burned 100% of their organizational credibility as reasonable adults with me.

It's not that they made that error; it's that making that error was possible given their organization's procedures.

This is one of the time having a short title limit sucks.

"Single Point of Failure" is a keyword that should have been highlighted.

I tried submitting the exact link with the same title 2 minutes after you did . Couldn't fit in the '[video]' tag :)

"Single Point of Failure: (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Password [video]" does fit in 80 characters limit. A typical headline trick.

I thought about it but the year is also required...

It's funny how this other news item is on the front page: "Google outage – resolved" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416881