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Ahhh, that's the critical piece of context I was missing. Thank you! Article didn't fully explain why the sticker matters so much, so that left me scratching m

Ahhh, that's the critical piece of context I was missing. Thank you! Article didn't fully explain why the sticker matters so much, so that left me scratching my head. (my gut reaction was "well, wouldn't a genuine sticker still be easy to counterfeit?). But based on your explanation this is more of a smell that everyone in the electronics manufacturing space is culturally attuned to. So, the fact that it slipped by so many people does indicate a slippage of norms. If I draw a comparison to software to bring it closer to something familiar to me... would this be like inconsistent variable name formatting? CamelCase in some places and snake_case in others? To an outsider, arguably inconsequential, so insisting on consistency here might seem OCD to them, but to someone who's worked in the space it's actually a useful marker of general detail orientation.

walrus01 5y ago
In software it would be like if you found evidence that one of your trusted developers had outsourced their own job to an unknown person in India, who was controlling their home office desktop PC by some sort of remote desktop tool and adding code/making commits on their behalf.
bopbeepboop 5y ago
This would be like if one day you found “MicronSoft Word” installed on your computer, when you went to write a document. Or your compiler started saying it was “Jawa 9”. Maybe someone just typo’d the name in an update.
3np 5y ago
> would this be like inconsistent variable name formatting? CamelCase in some places and snake_case in others? I’d say it’s more like misspelling your own company name in the JPEG logo in the HTML welcome email sent out to new users, and no one notices for a year.
outworlder 5y ago
> If I draw a comparison to software to bring it closer to something familiar to me... would this be like inconsistent variable name formatting This would be more like finding a container coming from dockahub.com and then ultimately finding out that it was a legitimate typo.

walrus01 5y ago

In software it would be like if you found evidence that one of your trusted developers had outsourced their own job to an unknown person in India, who was controlling their home office desktop PC by some sort of remote desktop tool and adding code/making commits on their behalf.

bopbeepboop 5y ago

This would be like if one day you found “MicronSoft Word” installed on your computer, when you went to write a document. Or your compiler started saying it was “Jawa 9”. Maybe someone just typo’d the name in an update.

3np 5y ago

> would this be like inconsistent variable name formatting? CamelCase in some places and snake_case in others? I’d say it’s more like misspelling your own company name in the JPEG logo in the HTML welcome email sent out to new users, and no one notices for a year.

outworlder 5y ago

> If I draw a comparison to software to bring it closer to something familiar to me... would this be like inconsistent variable name formatting This would be more like finding a container coming from dockahub.com and then ultimately finding out that it was a legitimate typo.