Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter
Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure
his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy
what he revealed:
> Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers
> sidecar architecture for auth, logging, rate limits
> DynamoDB + SQS for async provisioning
> Packer + SaltStack for automated VM deployments at scale
Atlassian charges per employee across 350,000 customers
this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free
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if your saas uses magic link signup, check this right now:
your link in the email shouldn't call the verify api directly.
there should be an interstitial confirm page instead.
here's why:
corporate email scanners (microsoft safe links, mimecast, etc) pre-fetch every url in incoming mail. they burn your single-use token before the user even clicks.
then user opens the email, sees "token invalid", retry 2 times, gives up.
cost us two F500 leads before we caught it.
fix: email points to a page with a "sign me in" button → POST from that button hits your verify api.
If taxes were fair:
You earn $100,000 per year and pay $30,000 in tax.
Your neighbor earns $1,000,000 and pays $300,000 in tax.
Your neighbor is paying 10X more than you.
If taxes were fair, you should both pay $30,000, since you both receive the same government services.
❗️🚨 Microsoft Edge keeps every saved password in process memory as cleartext from the moment it launches. Microsoft's responsed when reported: "by design."
All of them. Including credentials for sites you won't open this session.
Researcher @L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N tested every major Chromium browser. Edge is the only one that behaves this way.
Chrome decrypts credentials on demand, and App-Bound Encryption locks the keys to an authenticated Chrome process so other processes can't reuse them.
In Chrome, plaintext surfaces only during autofill or when a password is viewed, making memory scraping far less useful.
What makes this extra weird is that Edge still demands re-authentication before revealing those passwords in its Password Manager UI, while the same browser process already holds every one of them in plaintext.
In shared environments, this turns into a credential harvest. On a terminal server, an attacker with admin rights can read the memory of every logged-on user process. In the published PoC video, a compromised admin account lifts stored credentials from two other logged-on (and even disconnected) users with Edge running.
Microsoft's official response when notified: "by design."
The finding was disclosed April 29 at BigBiteOfTech by PaloAltoNtwks Norway, alongside a small educational tool that lets anyone verify the cleartext storage for themselves.