A login endpoint returning “unknown email” and “incorrect password” as separate messages, which is an account enumeration oracle with good intentions. Fixing the message and leaving the timing…
Runbooks written by the expert were unusable by anybody else, so the second person wrote them and the expert reviewed. The expert’s version of step one was “check…
A routing rule sending database alerts to a person who left the database team in 2023. A personal integration key survives a role change invisibly, because nothing about…
Eight severity levels, used by four people with four different interpretations, producing a log where error meant nothing in particular. The column that resolved the arguments is the…
A worker logging a line per job hit the journal’s rate limit during a backlog, and the lines that were dropped were the ones describing the backlog. The…