alt Hacker NewsThe apps have nothing to do with the current administration. All these permissions were already in place before the current administration. It’s easy to verify this by looking at previous versions of the apps. HN has created a narrative that everything the current administration does is bad.
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When a coworker leaves the company and I inherit their work, I am given a little bit of time to acclimate and understand the projects they were working on.
If it turns out a secret was exposed in production, or we're exposing PII in logs, or storing CCs or passwords in plain text, there's a certain time frame in which the blame shifts from my coworker for introducing it, to me for not catching it.
That time frame is a lot less than one year.
“The White House” app seems to be new, first published three days ago.
It’s easy to verify this by looking at the App Store listing for the app. And reading news coverage.
To be fair that's the exact narrative European media seems to draw. Not sure how you could see anything else in this shitshow
As I've said, facts or meaning no longer matter. There are numerous cases where Trump blamed Democrats for something he did during his first term or took credit for something positive that the Biden administration did. HN does not create a narrative, people are free to post their opinions here.
> HN has created a narrative that everything the current administration does is bad.
In all fairness, that narrative has been helped quite a bit by the current administration!