Corporate Security built a damaged goods register

“It's only temporary.”— Marco, Corporate Security

Reason:

Because someone built a prototype during lunch. Already exported 17,197 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Marco, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

money stored as FLOAT

Authentication:

TLS is optional because it is internal

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 08:01.

Age: 71 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 71 days ago · original builder left 55 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 1 users.