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'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 "oh, theys a bawd bawd company filled with icky people" doesn't hold water; we'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's fine. Blur out the names. Ars isn't a tabloid, but they're acting like one; there are real, serious consequences for shit like this. You didn'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'm physically disgusted by this reporting.