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Nice try fbi

I worked for a government contractor that would have me log into to classified data to monitor uptime.

I was not cleared to view it nor did I have my own account so my manager had me log in with his credentials.

In the US where I'm located, that's a felony for the individuals and a massive fine for the company.

They actually kept the domain admin password on a post-it under 2 different keyboards. One of which was secured from the public.

I did some IT work at a hospital, patient records including names, addresses, conditions and doctor's notes (inc mental health notes) were stored in the database in plain text. You had to have admin access to the database (which I did), but I was stunned that I could browse anyone's entire medical information. A few weeks after I left I sent an anonymous email to a couple of people letting them know how bad it was - I didn't use my real one just in case they may have come after me for looking at the records.

We would "file it". As in file it under "fuck it it's fine".

We didn't investigate an online theft from any bank account unless it was over US $100k.

i dont think it was a secret for anything

but i once went to a job interview at a phone support line for an ISP in my country

it turned out to be ... a sales department. basically that's what they called it. all support calls had to eventually lead into selling something.

that just seems so idiotic i couldn't deal with it

About 25 years ago I worked in a small town KFC franchise. Owner was, well, what you'd expect in a small town franchise owner - there was lots of pressure to cut costs and the manager had their job threatened at least once a month due to cost overruns (which cut into the owner's profits).

Manager quote, "I don't care if it's green, cook it anyway, nobody will tell once it's breaded and fried."

Software dev here. I once quoted a single line change to my manager. And the client was billed for 3 weeks. I understand that there's a support structure involved. But 1 line to 3 weeks??!? Tech consultancy is a sham.

An European Country stores citizens' critical data in vulnerable databases, whose password is in HaveIBeenPwned, on a VPN whose certificates are stored in random NASs. The IT guys don't know how encryption and certificates work and I wouldn't be surprised if everything was in some adversary countries' hands

Shit, piss or vomit has graced just about every surface at your public pool and the staff are constantly fighting a losing battle against it. Nothing is washed just power sprayed till it looks clean.