[Avitas]

It's hard for me to imagine a company as big as Dell making such a bone-headed blunder.

[gnoway]

It shouldn't be. If anything, being as big as Dell makes me wonder why it hasn't happened already.

I work at an Enterprise software company a few orders of magnitude smaller than Dell. The number of people we have who don't even begin to understand how SSL works beyond 'its encrypted now' is frustrating.

Dell can probably recruit better people than we can, but I don't know if they can recruit better people at volume, top to bottom. It only takes a couple of people to not understand what they are doing and 'just get it done' for this to happen.

[astrodust]

Volkswagen made a much bigger blunder, as you might have heard. Sometimes companies fail to comprehend the consequences of their actions.

[lazaroclapp]

In that particular case, it's likely less "fail to comprehend the consequences of their actions" and more "underestimate the chances of being caught"...

[projct]

The bigger a company is, the more places there are for bone-headed blunders to go unnoticed.