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is... mind-boggingly stupid of whoever got the job to write that Starlink web-app.
OTOH, the hacker hijacked a Starlink employee's account to get in, isn't that over the line in terms of "ethical hacking"/legality standpoint?
The flip side of the joke being, of course, that everyone internally naturally prefers weaker controls (that help them ship faster compared) to stronger controls. So there's a wink and a nod and a smile and everyone moves on while institutionalized corruption is accepted. Nevermind that strong controls over commit messages can also help build automated documentation, notifications, and clear integrations like being able to link a production outage to the Git commit that triggered it, including full business context and knowledge of who to contact.
Note that there are two kinds of perspectives to build this kind of control - the glass-half-full perspective that builds Git -> Slack integrations to let people get notified quickly that a review was requested, including signals that this is a hotfix/simple/not-controversial/rubber-stamp to help get simple stuff approved quickly and deployed quickly, along with collaboration with auditors to get them the reports and commit samples they need. The glass-half-empty perspective is to say, well the auditors already have a built-in integration with Jira, so let's throw it in to Jira, along with a complicated and rigid workflow that forces everything to go through sprint planning and approvals by managers 3 levels up, and if it causes a production outage because something can't be fixed quickly, well that's not really Security's or Compliance's fault, the regulations are the regulations and the auditors are the auditors, and why are you trying to work around The Perfect Process That We Worked So Hard To Build, maybe you have malicious reasons hmmm? And maybe it's time we hired separate operators to run everything in production, like A Real Enterprise Company would, like some banks you've heard of?
Thankfully, even AI writes better code than this, so as this type of developer quickly becomes unemployable over the next few years, I think we’ll see a temporary increase in code quality.
This whole thing is honestly what I've suspected/expected owning this car, but it's somehow still surprising to see. My guess is no car company does this really well right now, and makes me want to drive a 1998 Acura Integra instead.