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by colinyoung 3225 days ago
As both a Chicagoan and (obviously) an Illinois resident, this means my voter info has been exposed twice this year alone.

Amazon sent out warning emails for owners of misconfigured boxes about 60 days ago. Why didn't the firm in question take action? I am an engineer and literally had to do that same task at work at that time. Easy as 2 clicks.

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The ticket wasn't a high enough priority. Or the PO didn't want to prioritize it in the sprint.
My guess is they were staffed with contractors to build it out and it was no ones responsibility to maintain after they left. I've seen that happen more than once..
"It was in the backlog!"
Tech debt "we'll get to it."