Quality Assurance built an asset register for 400 laptops

“It's read-only except for updates.”— Lukas, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Allegedly because the shared password was last changed 11 days ago. Started as Suppliers_backup.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Lukas, a working student

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

a mini PC behind the reception desk

Authentication:

the password is the company name backwards

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

Tobias, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Jens"

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will be reported to the data protection officer by a customer.

Age: 8.0 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 5 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 418x longer than intended, older than the department using it.