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Account Required, 2FA, Contract Signed In Blood... to see a PDF. (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 months ago by HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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(Alt: The Drake meme. Upper panel shows him hiding his face from "Securing Customer Data". Lower panel shows him smirking at "Securing Public API Documentation")

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[-] kubica@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

Did I miss some follow up news on microsoft blaming EU? Or is it just a meme (so far)?

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 3 months ago

No, this is a general practice-- I see it a lot with third-party vendors who want you to integrate with their services. They'll expire the documentation portal password after 90 days, but the actual user facing service still accepts the same "password123" that's been set since 2004.

I suspect the pattern is to protect the vendors from developer scrutiny: by the time you've jumped through enough hoops to read the docs and realize it's trash, the execs have signed the contracts and the sunk costs are too high to bail out.

Also add another 6 months to actually get the credentials for the test environment.