Customer Support built a visitor sign-in kiosk

“We have a README.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration works unless it is Friday. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Nadia, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

filenames. The filenames are the database.

Authentication:

the audit log is disabled because it filled the disk

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

an external agency with no contract on file

Documentation:

a Confluence page copied from another project

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Bastian about.

Age: 7.7 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 884 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 47x longer than intended, nobody owns it, the builder has left.