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'123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants

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111 points nan60 | 5 comments | 11 Jul 25 21:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ajsnigrutin ◴[12 Jul 25 00:29 UTC] No.44538196[source]▶
It's funny how mcdonalds did everything in their power to make it almost impossible to run their mcdonalds app on a rooted phone, but their backend infrastructure is beyond broken (security wise)
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1. ceejayoz ◴[12 Jul 25 01:20 UTC] No.44538473[source]▶
The McDonalds consumer-facing app is quite possibly the worst app from a major company I've ever encountered. It's shockingly bad.
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2. parpfish ◴[12 Jul 25 01:38 UTC] No.44538564[source]▶
The UI is atrocious.

I do computers for a living and can barely navigate and figure out what’s going on.

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3. Keverw ◴[12 Jul 25 06:07 UTC] No.44539728[source]▶
I noticed it freezes up on me sometimes when I open it. I assume something is blocking instead of being asynchronous when it pings their servers, but instead of waiting to dismiss a loading screen it just shows the full app and like freezes.
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4. rahimnathwani ◴[12 Jul 25 06:46 UTC] No.44539896[source]▶
It can be confusing for new or infrequent users.

I use it once a week and I don't find it annoying at all, except for the bug where it will let you complete an order for an airport McDonald's, and then soon after automatically cancel the order.

5. parpfish ◴[12 Jul 25 12:27 UTC] No.44541583{3}[source]▶
My guess is that they’ve got a million feature flags and a/b test variations going on because it’s just so tempting to “growth hack” in an app like that.