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wait a second Siemens made a deal to have some software running inside their infrastructure without having the code open right away, that is a major rookie mist
by __saykou 7y ago
wait a second Siemens made a deal to have some software running inside their infrastructure without having the code open right away, that is a major rookie mistake.
- kfk 7y agowell, companies do it all the time when they buy “enterprise” packages. I believe SAP is closed source and it’s the life and blood of most companies’ IT infrastructure.
- oeuviz 7y agoMost of SAPs code is ABAP and is visible, debuggable and even hackable by the user.
- pedrocr 7y agoGiven that this was a spreadsheet it's more likely that someone hired the contractor directly without going through IT. When things were burning and IT was begrudgingly brought in to fix things they weren't predisposed to be kind. No rookies involved. Just the normal corporate IT dynamic where things move too slow so get hacked around with Excel and other kludges and everything works until it doesn't.
- lolc 7y agoThe article says that the spreadsheets were protected by a password that the contractor did not initially hand over. So yes, that was a oversight of Siemens.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago"Protected" office documents are the rough equivalent of putting up a 'Do Not Enter' sign and are just as trivial to bypass. If anyone had really cared enough to want to see the code, they could have.
- philtar 7y agoWhat about every org that uses windows? Are they rookies?