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Re:A blameless post-mortem of USA vs. Joseph Sullivan by ineptech on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:59PM (#33914973)
The purpose of a retro is to identify a process that will keep some bad thing from happening again; a process that keeps the bad thing from happening for any reason is strictly better than a process that keeps the bad thing from happening due to malice. If your infra engineers can't expose your PII on accident, they can't expose it on purpose either. To extend your analogy, it's the difference between locking your house (which protects your valuables from thieves, but not your garden hose and wheelbarrow from your drunken neighbor) vs. locking your shed as well.
Re:A blameless post-mortem of USA vs. Joseph Sullivan by remram on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:08PM (#33926469)
> If your infra engineers can't expose your PII on accident, they can't expose it on purpose either.

That sounds exactly backwards.

Re:A blameless post-mortem of USA vs. Joseph Sullivan by geraldyo on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:19PM (#33929124)
Both are true
Re:A blameless post-mortem of USA vs. Joseph Sullivan by remram on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:40PM (#33946700)
Definitely not. Many things are designed to prevent accidents and are not secure against attacks, even in the data landscape.