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Re:Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to variou... by unethical_ban on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:50PM (#26183066)
In critical systems I agree with this philosophy. However, there are trade-offs to building process and checklists and peer reviews to every step in a human system.
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Re:Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to variou... by grogenaut on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:58PM (#26183984)
Yet when this same retailer takes down half the internet with a bad config change to a large storage system you are likely asking why they didn't have better processes to prevent this dangerous action
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Re:Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to variou... by gridspy on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:02PM (#26187630)
Which is a much healthier reaction than blaming the poor employee that changed that config file.
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Re:Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to variou... by grogenaut on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:17AM (#26190304)
they didn't blame the employee they did the right thing, that's the culture.
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