Works Council built a customer feedback wall

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because the shared password was last changed 623 days ago. With 1515 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Sarah, an analyst

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Docker Compose on a machine called PROD2

Database:

a backup drive that has not been plugged in for 17 months

Authentication:

the production token is in someone's shell history

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called demo

Responsible:

Jens, who has never seen the source code

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 174 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 174 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, 49% chance of becoming business critical, 1 accidental connections.