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Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines

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294 points NotPractical | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 00:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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ChicagoDave ◴[16 Oct 24 08:28 UTC] No.41856840[source]▶
I worked at RedBox in 2010. C# with embedded Lua for the screens. The intent was to build a flexible architecture for CoinStar to use on many kiosk businesses.

The PII is likely log files that should have been erased nightly, but I don’t remember.

I know the guy that designed the architecture. He’s a friend that I’ve argued with about over-engineering things. He never cared if people understood his work, which is a common theme with old school engineering.

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1. danielmg ◴[16 Oct 24 10:40 UTC] No.41857577[source]▶
It's not just an 'old school' thing. FFS look at the state of the Javascript ecosystem.
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2. ChicagoDave ◴[16 Oct 24 13:59 UTC] No.41859112[source]▶
There certainly are spots of over-engineered solutions in today’s world, but overall I do believe things like cloud serverless, and domain-driven design (modularization) have reduced complexity in a natural fashion.

These over-engineered systems usually came out of client server architectures using heavy inheritance object pyramids, which we definitely don’t build as much anymore.