Re: An Adobe Wannbe?
>was this deliberate?
Yeah, that's a good question. The assumption most of you have so far is that it was just a nitwit or dishonest dev. Just because this is a massive fail doesn't mean it didn't take time to set up and why would a dev do it on her/his own initiative? That stupid? And it never got caught by QA/reviews?
On the other hand, could it be a magic, lazy, get-out-of-jail free feature? Just in case something goes really wrong and you want to figure out what's going on, customer-side. You have a backdoor and you use it.
Not really different from a secret hardcoded, unchangeable, root password, is it? And we never see those either, of course. But, if that's the case, then don't call that a bug, please, because it would have been sanctioned at higher levels than individual incompetent devs.
Of course, the fact that it nukes security is irrelevant. It's more important that it solves Cisco/insert-other-dodgy-vendors' support problems.
