Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO
Fuck this story, and shame on ArsTechnica for publishing it.<p>We shouldn&#x27;t call out and shame individuals for making a mistake like this. Any company which even does something like this <i>internally</i> is toxic; the blame lies on the company and the process, not the individual. The flimsy excuse &quot;oh, theys a bawd bawd company filled with icky people&quot; doesn&#x27;t hold water; we&#x27;re talking about basic decency here.<p>You want to write a story about the commit? Hold the company responsible? Encourage processes and procedures which would have caught this? That&#x27;s fine. Blur out the names. Ars isn&#x27;t a tabloid, but they&#x27;re acting like one; there are real, serious consequences for shit like this. You didn&#x27;t set out to create the perfect ammunition for someone within a company arguing against the open sourcing of some project, but here it is.<p>I&#x27;m physically disgusted by this reporting.