I feel extremely confident that a reporter who set out to write this story about the tech industry could find approximately equally bad emails unambiguously directing illegal behavior, at many companies, as a policy choice.
@patio11
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Industry Prioritization Dynamics: Competing Urgent Demands
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The industry is aware of this and one reason for the cacophony is it is acutely aware that the wheel that has squeaked most recently is the most likely one to get greased, and given typical behavior is multiple simultaneous wheels demanding attention…
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Human Capital Investment in Automation Economics
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What’s the right level of human capital to invest in trueing up the account balances of people who owe $11.32? The Sort has an answer here and you’re not going to like it.
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Secure Data Destruction in Hardware Decommissioning Procedures
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(That was not a good day, because the decommissioning procedure involves physically destroying the attached media. Wouldn’t want customer information leaking into the supply chain, naturally.)
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University Database Backups Security Infrastructure Risk
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(Turns out that that company’s client, which physically controlled the server room, also owned Dell servers for a variety of purposes I couldn’t speculate about and one I can: holding all the backups for university DBs.)
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Senior Engineer’s Serial Number Verification Failure Causes Major Outage
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(This reminds me of an outage a long time ago in a place far far away caused by a senior systems engineer told to access client server room and retrieve the Dell 12345X server with serial 123456 who did everything right except double checking serial numbers.)
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Organizations struggle to prioritize education over job programs
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There’s a freebie saying “we prioritize the education over the jobs program” as demonstrated by how many orgs are absolutely incapable of envisioning a world where they could say that.
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Appeal Strategies for Information Access Requests and Agency Compliance
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Another cheat code here is sending in an appeal to the constructive denial of the original request. In some jurisdictions, appeals are mandatorily CCed to a watchdog and count against the agency’s score in a way that they perceive matters. Following the law matters too… a bit.
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From Forums to Ephemeral Chats: Digital Preservation Crisis
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I regret the turn from forum posts which lasted ~forever to group chats with N day expiry, partially for this reason. Even just a handful of years later one is a primary source historical document and the other might be paraphrased imperfectly in someone’s blog next year maybe.
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Massive IA Startup Funding: Series B After Tens of Billions
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… a great graph whose friends/investors/team all think they're going to change the world in the next 10 years. This one took tens of billions of dollars of investment to get to Series B but oh well not my cap table not my problem.