rainforest
Joined 13 years ago
Joined 13 years ago
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/motorola/comments/1s61usi/edge_60_p...
I feel the UPF "debate" is just an appeal to nature, and calorie/nutrient density should be what we fixate on.
These calls come in on an unrecognised number, from staff who say "I don't know" when you ask them to prove they are from Octopus, and generate no call notes so you can't find out why they rang if you use the main customer service number.
To top it off they ask you to key in your card info on the phone after asking for your personal information.
I complained and they offered to fob me off with £30 credit instead of talking to their CISO, but they did at least say they can add phone passwords to individual accounts.
I think you can fairly criticise WAF products and the people who advocate for them (and created the need for them) but I don't think the CF team responsible can really be singled out.
I would surmise that this will stop being a problem if you switch to using a unix socket for the CDP.
Ultimately a sacrifice must be chosen, but I am not sure a discussion about how that should be made is necessarily fit for HN (though I'd be interested in how you'd resolve your proposed scenario).
Within reason I think there is a rational basis for not having to involve software engineers for every project - especially if the SMEs with understanding of their requirements are the ones building it.
This will probably fall over in the same space as Excel spreadsheets do though, when the domain complexity outgrows it, way before anyone is able to recognise that.
VPNs seem useful to guarantee that your traffic is designated as foreign, so this might be a net gain for the intelligence services rather than a loss - the mandatory collection of ICRs only relates to IP addresses and time of access.
[1]:https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/edward-snowden-leaks-uk-o...