Finance built an email campaign sender bypassing marketing

“We didn't have time for a ticket.”— Petra, Finance

Reason:

Mainly because the printer is somehow involved. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Petra, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

MFA is disabled because somebody lost their phone

Deployment:

deployed Thursday at 14:25

Responsible:

"the team", which is Petra

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Age: 5.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, €196k per year, alive 63x longer than intended.