In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:
http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/
It became a big deal:
http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1
The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)
| # Require this file in spec_helper.rb to show which cassettes are not being used | |
| # after the test suite has run. Then you can decide if you want to delete them. | |
| require 'vcr' | |
| require 'set' | |
| USED_CASSETTES = Set.new | |
| module CassetteReporter | |
| def insert_cassette(name, options = {}) | |
| USED_CASSETTES << VCR::Cassette.new(name, options).file |
| # In order for gpg to find gpg-agent, gpg-agent must be running, and there must be an env | |
| # variable pointing GPG to the gpg-agent socket. This little script, which must be sourced | |
| # in your shell's init script (ie, .bash_profile, .zshrc, whatever), will either start | |
| # gpg-agent or set up the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable if it's already running. | |
| # Add the following to your shell init to set up gpg-agent automatically for every shell | |
| if [ -f ~/.gnupg/.gpg-agent-info ] && [ -n "$(pgrep gpg-agent)" ]; then | |
| source ~/.gnupg/.gpg-agent-info | |
| export GPG_AGENT_INFO | |
| else |
| '.source.ruby': | |
| 'frozen_string_literal': | |
| 'prefix': 'freeze' | |
| 'body': "# frozen_string_literal: true\n" |
| # `ERROR: Error installing nokogiri: | |
| # ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. | |
| # | |
| # current directory: /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.7.0/ext/nokogiri | |
| # /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.3.1/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20170103-68488-r71c9j.rb extconf.rb --with-xml=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/ --use-system-libraries | |
| # checking if the C compiler accepts ... yes | |
| # checking if the C compiler accepts -Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future... no | |
| # Building nokogiri using system libraries. | |
| # ERROR: cannot discover where libxml2 is located on your system. please make sure `pkg-config` is installed. | |
| # *** extconf.rb failed *** |
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
