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Too much detail in this error message from EA (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

If all the corporations can just stop trying to be cute in their error messages, that would be great. This is literally worse than "ERROR: Unknown Error" because this goes out of its way to taunt you while still giving you no actionable information.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I will say that at least it has an error code. So you can actually look it up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I see nothing wrong with it

How can the client know the back end issue

And

What’s the point of giving it to the end user

Any fix would be the user contacting the company and the error code is there. Follow ups would be a traceroute

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends if this cure message is a psuedonym for the real message. Kind of you have a different quip for each one, then reporting it the Devs will know what the issue is but any bad actors won't be able to try and discern cause and effect from any exploits they are trying (or at least make it harder)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

security through obscurity is not security.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Didn't say it was the best practice, but it is a practice