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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:
by 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 agoThis is one of those comments I really wish I could give more than 1 point to.
- hdctambien 16y agoActually 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 agoWell, 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.
- thwarted 16y agoDon't forget that the majority of the people who worked on the Death Star were contractors.
- jonnathanson 16y agoMost likely without decent health insurance, because who in their right mind would insure those guys? Talk about occupational hazards.
- famousactress 16y agomore like... dev-ds1-29412: Okay, fine... but this is gonna delay ActiveRecord integration. pm-ds1-32542: Fuck. NM. Resolution: Postponed.