alt Hacker NewsI'm sorry, what?
> Previously, you were able to have _some_ reasonable expectation of security in that trained engineers were the ones building these things
When was this? What world? Did I skip worldlines? Is this a new Universe?
The world I remember is that anybody could write a program and put it on the Internet. Is this not the world you remember?
Further, when those engineers were "trained" ... were there no data breaches before 2022?
Of course there were. Don't be pedantic. Anybody could write a program and put it on the internet. But to get a reasonably polished version with decent features and an enjoyable enough UX for someone to sign up and even pay money more, it generally took people who kind of knew what they were doing.
Of course shortcuts were taken. They always were and always will be. But don't try to compare shipping software today to even just 3 years ago.