[jiggyboy]

If it doesn’t show on the screen, I’d say it doesn’t apply. Even more so if it’s just some boilerplate in a comment that isn’t even in the executing code.

[holden]

Having been a coder for decades, I've see thousands of such messages. They generally point toward what other coders should find helpful in determining what to do as coding choices come up.

I would interpret this to mean that some lead coder is saying to those who may follow, "Don't bother going to any extra design or coding efforts to insure data privacy."

Perhaps as someone upthread said, "We don't need no steenking extra work to clutter up our lines of code!   Fast and loose, guys, fast and loose!"

HF

[Pearls Before Swine]

If it doesn’t show on the screen, I’d say it doesn’t apply. Even more so if it’s just some boilerplate in a comment that isn’t even in the executing code.

Who's to say, later, after the damage to privacy has occurred, and maybe a lawsuit is brought? It would be impossible to say what was on the screen and when. Besides, doesn't our government have sovereign immunity to just say FY?