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I've been the employee who describes what needs to be done to improve security, only to be ignored. And then some rando off the internet makes note of the security shortcoming in the product and suddenly the boss is going crazy. He says stuff like "Why didn't anyone tell me about this?!" And fixing the issue needs to be done yesterday. No, no time to fix it properly, let's slap together whatever we can and rush it out.

So glad I quit that job.

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This is almost my current employer to a tee.

I hope to take the same action as you in the near future.

This so accurately describes the last week of my life. Years of shrugs and "we will get to that when <moving goalpost>" when security concerns are brought up. Thankfully, we had done some of the work anyway and were teed up to do the rest quickly enough. Still sucked pretty hard.

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