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Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Love this. Lol.

I used to maintain a system that was used to track loss prevention. Basically security company that followed delivery trucks. It was wild to read database records about these guys openly selling their stolen goods (building supplies) while testing my code changes.

The database was sanitized of identifying info if anyone cares.