Supply Chain built a custom survey tool for one annual survey

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the vendor quoted €249 and a discovery phase. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 11 days ago.

Built by:

Nadia, an intern

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Lovable, plus one emergency GitHub edit

Database:

filenames. The filenames are the database.

Authentication:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Deployment:

deployed Friday at 11:54

Responsible:

a contractor invoicing €1051/day through a third party

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will be mentioned in an audit finding using the words "material weakness".

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, €84k per year, it is load bearing.