CEO's Daughter built a software licence tracker

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Allegedly because the bug was closed because nobody replied for 11 days. With 359 users and 40 feature requests.

Built by:

Priya, a key account manager

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since October

Authentication:

anonymous users are mapped to "default admin"

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 18 months old

Future disaster:

It will gain 513 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 25 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 99% chance of becoming business critical, alive 4x longer than intended, €5k per year.