Facilities built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Officially because the API documentation says "ask Priya". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Elena, a key account manager

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

the password manager is someone's browser

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 6 unrelated applications

Responsible:

Marco, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2023

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 11:27.

Age: 114 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 106 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €72k per year, the builder has left, alive 5x longer than intended.