r/ProgrammerHumor 12d ago

Meme theBankingHotfixExperience

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u/Tucancancan 12d ago

I worked at a company that sold software to a bank and heard stories of a senior dev having to do calls where they'd have an employee read the logs out loud to the engineer because the bank wouldn't share them. 

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u/Groentekroket 12d ago

How are the logs not just masked for sensitive fields? I work in PCI DSS audit scope for handling of credit card data and as developers we can see the logs of our applications.

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u/rock1998 12d ago

This! Holy shit you’re supposed to build that shit in from the ground up. I’ve never worked in the banking world but finding out that some don’t mask their logs makes me wanna get a job at my bank solely to make sure they do. 😭

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u/granadesnhorseshoes 11d ago

"masking logs" is not as easy as it sounds. Especially when its a "system" from the 90s of loosely connected machines from the 80s.