Legal built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Kevin, Legal

Reason:

Officially because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 209 days. Forked from a tutorial at 17:58 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Kevin, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

RabbitMQ with 544 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a calendar invite description from January

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will gain 526 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 333 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 6x longer than intended, 1 users, €1k per year.