Finance built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— Olivier, Finance

Reason:

Allegedly because the shared password was last changed 623 days ago. With 37 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Olivier, a field technician

Build time:

5 hours 34 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a private Slack channel called #data-backup

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2023

Deployment:

deployed with a shell script called deploy-final.sh

Responsible:

nobody officially, Sofia emotionally

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 906 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 634 users, €857k per year, alive 74x longer than intended.