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App #1138 · 🇨🇭 Switzerland
Disaster score 322Common
Information Security built a desk plant watering rota
🧟 Builder has left
Users2
Departments3
Criticality10%
Money involved€148,181/yr
“The admin page isn't linked anywhere.”— HR Generalist
- Reason:
- Mainly because the deletion process requires a ticket, a manager and 9 approvals. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 823 days ago.
- Built by:
- Petra, a product owner
- Build time:
- a long Thursday
- Built with:
- a Chrome extension installed manually on 47 laptops
- Database:
- a database view called test-backup_FINAL_FINAL
- Authentication:
- permissions are managed by copying another user's account
- Deployment:
- behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine
- Responsible:
- Managing Director, who delegated it to somebody who left
- Documentation:
- a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 623 days ago
- Security situation:
- certificate warnings are considered normal
- Future disaster:
- It will cause Legal to ask "who approved this?".
Accidentally connected to (3)
- → depends on a server nobody is allowed to reboot
- → receives production data from an IP address hard-coded in source
- → depends on a domain Thomas owns privately
Age: 84 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 36 days ago
Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, €148k per year, 3 departments depend on it.
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