> When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it… > Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process… Someone used a variable.
"blah happened before bleh [but we missed that]" is caused by using variables, 100% of the time. Also, if you do not use variables, there cannot possibly be such a thing.
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Huh, I disagree. It could also be caused by logging in a stage of the pipeline before the password is hashed. Like, maybe they log HTTP requests.
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I definitely think you’re wrong that not using variables makes this class of bug obsolete.
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Maybe the used a WriterMonad



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That would mean this bug cannot occur then, wouldn't it :)
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