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that's when you start having these unofficial shadow systems spring up

Exactly what happened to me today.

An engineer [1] opened up a ticket because some java code he was developing to insert attachments to our BOM system was returning funny errors.

Which is fine except he'd somehow gotten credentials for my production system and was testing his code against live bits.

Hooray for initiative, but good lord, fella: how would you feel if I ran out on the floor and started testing new widgets on equipment we're building for customers?

[1] Not software but electrical.



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