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Article is talking about the second Death Star. They removed the 'small thermal exhaust port' of that one. Rather it got blown up cause it was under constructio

Article is talking about the second Death Star. They removed the 'small thermal exhaust port' of that one. Rather it got blown up cause it was under construction leaving a path to the core open (and the moon based shield generator got blown up).

EdwardMSmith 16y ago
"and the moon based shield generator got blown up" Taken down by a flaw in their hosting environment.
- archgoon 16y ago
  They were blind sided by a DDOS attack followed by a 0-day exploit on their walkers which, through privilege escalation, resulted in the moon base being compromised. People just didn't take security seriously enough. The CEO of HBGary Imperial has since resigned.
jonnathanson 16y ago
I'm amazed they didn't build at least some redundancy into their shielding plans. I mean, come on. They fixed the fatal flaw from the first design, but you'd think they would have learned a more valuable lesson: it's not the exhaust port; it's the fact that you keep leaving one critical dependency in the plan each time.
- famousactress 16y ago
  No, no.. the construction was always perfect. There just wasn't an acceptance test for that. If PM had wanted Death Star of the poking-it-there-won't-make-it-explode variety, then they should have written a User Story for that. Duh.
  - Splines 16y ago
    Bug: Thermal exhaust port is vulnerable to external attack that can lead to total system failure Opened By: qa-ds1-15215 Severity: 1 Fix By: DS2 Comments: qa-ds1-15215: I was checking out the design and noticed that thermal exhaust port AH-51 is open to the world. Someone could drop an explosive in here and bring down the system. This needs to be fixed ASAP. pm-ds1-32542: Well, duh. Who in their right mind is going to be dropping explosives into their own system? Resolution: By Design qa-ds1-15215: Status: Activated. Are you serious? Do you not understand the implications of this design problem? pm-ds1-32542: Assigned To: dev-ds1-29412. dev-ds1-29412: Jesus H. Christ, 15215. We talked about this in the hallway yesterday. There's no way we can change the design now, we've got people coming in to kick the tires on this thing. Resolution: Won't Fix qa-ds1-15215: You too???!!! You guys seriously don't understand what's at stake here. Can we at least look at this in the next version? Status: Activated. dev-ds1-29412: Fine. Resolution: Postponed. lukes: Lol
    - jonnathanson 16y ago
      This is one of those comments I really wish I could give more than 1 point to.
    - hdctambien 16y ago
      Actually according to the book "Death Star" by Michael Reaves, the project manager actually caught the exhaust port vulnerability during construction and made a verbal agreement with the foreman to fix the problem. Unfortunately the project manager got distracted by other matters soon after and the foreman fell sick and the replacement foreman didn't know about the changes to the plans so he went ahead and built the port to spec. When the project manager found out, it was too late and the construction was still behind schedule so she just left it. This all happened AFTER the plans for the death star were leaked, too. So if the vulnerability had been fixed, the rebels would have gone ahead with their plan as normal and even Luke wouldn't have been able to hit that womprat.
      - jonnathanson 16y ago
        Well, we knew there was high turnover with the staff on that thing. Vader's people-management methods were pretty extreme and capricious, to say the least. It's abundantly clear that ruling through terror didn't exactly bring out the best in his workforce.

EdwardMSmith 16y ago

"and the moon based shield generator got blown up" Taken down by a flaw in their hosting environment.

archgoon 16y ago
They were blind sided by a DDOS attack followed by a 0-day exploit on their walkers which, through privilege escalation, resulted in the moon base being compromised. People just didn't take security seriously enough. The CEO of HBGary Imperial has since resigned.

jonnathanson 16y ago

I'm amazed they didn't build at least some redundancy into their shielding plans. I mean, come on. They fixed the fatal flaw from the first design, but you'd think they would have learned a more valuable lesson: it's not the exhaust port; it's the fact that you keep leaving one critical dependency in the plan each time.

famousactress 16y ago
No, no.. the construction was always perfect. There just wasn't an acceptance test for that. If PM had wanted Death Star of the poking-it-there-won't-make-it-explode variety, then they should have written a User Story for that. Duh.
- Splines 16y ago
  Bug: Thermal exhaust port is vulnerable to external attack that can lead to total system failure Opened By: qa-ds1-15215 Severity: 1 Fix By: DS2 Comments: qa-ds1-15215: I was checking out the design and noticed that thermal exhaust port AH-51 is open to the world. Someone could drop an explosive in here and bring down the system. This needs to be fixed ASAP. pm-ds1-32542: Well, duh. Who in their right mind is going to be dropping explosives into their own system? Resolution: By Design qa-ds1-15215: Status: Activated. Are you serious? Do you not understand the implications of this design problem? pm-ds1-32542: Assigned To: dev-ds1-29412. dev-ds1-29412: Jesus H. Christ, 15215. We talked about this in the hallway yesterday. There's no way we can change the design now, we've got people coming in to kick the tires on this thing. Resolution: Won't Fix qa-ds1-15215: You too???!!! You guys seriously don't understand what's at stake here. Can we at least look at this in the next version? Status: Activated. dev-ds1-29412: Fine. Resolution: Postponed. lukes: Lol
  - jonnathanson 16y ago
    This is one of those comments I really wish I could give more than 1 point to.
  - hdctambien 16y ago
    Actually according to the book "Death Star" by Michael Reaves, the project manager actually caught the exhaust port vulnerability during construction and made a verbal agreement with the foreman to fix the problem. Unfortunately the project manager got distracted by other matters soon after and the foreman fell sick and the replacement foreman didn't know about the changes to the plans so he went ahead and built the port to spec. When the project manager found out, it was too late and the construction was still behind schedule so she just left it. This all happened AFTER the plans for the death star were leaked, too. So if the vulnerability had been fixed, the rebels would have gone ahead with their plan as normal and even Luke wouldn't have been able to hit that womprat.
    - jonnathanson 16y ago
      Well, we knew there was high turnover with the staff on that thing. Vader's people-management methods were pretty extreme and capricious, to say the least. It's abundantly clear that ruling through terror didn't exactly bring out the best in his workforce.