In major goof, Uber stored sensitive database key on public GitHub page

Ride-sharing service subpoenas GitHub for IP addresses that accessed security key.

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[hizonner]

thegrommit[/url]":3mt50x15]Heh, not suprised. This is Uber. Not paying attention to security and privacy is part of their business model.

Not paying attention to security, privacy, labor conditions, longstanding laws directly targeted at their main business...

Basically Uber appears to be run by douchebags who think they're above it all, and that paying attention to WTF you're doing is for little people who aren't "disruptive". No surprise if the attitude trickles down.

 

[hizonner]

uhuznaa[/url]":2cdhwe93]
Uber is expanding like a gas into a vacuum right now and is just as able to fill all the available vacuum in any meaningful way as the gas would be.

What vacuuum? They're a freaking taxi service. They're no different from owner-operator taxi services all over the world. Their business is probably older than cars. The last time it really changed was when radio dispatch came out.

Uber's advantages are a slightly more efficient dispatch system that enables them to take on more part time drivers (although I'm not sure they really have many), and a total lack of respect for drivers, passengers, or the law.

There's no vacuum of taxi services. The only vacuum Uber is expanding into is a vacuum of irresponsible, rule-ignoring taxi services with enough money to keep politicians at bay.

A smartphone app for dispatching cars is not comparable to the discovery of fire.