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^ and this isn't just a public service problem, either.

I'm making this number up, but I swear that 90% of the time when I come across a company that's absolutely floundering under the weight of its own poor decisions, it's because those decisions are enforced by software such that people CAN'T work around it.

What ends up happening is doing anything crosses 15 silo's and each of those silo's absolutely enforces it's authority such that no single person is able to bridge the gap between even two of them.

What makes it hard is that there are legitimate reasons why you don't want a single person being able to write code, push it to production, open firewalls, open access to databases, add ACL's, etc. Depending on the industry, the need for controls should exist, and because there's SOME legitimacy there it gets pushed across the threshold past reasonableness to absolute pain for everyone involved.

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And if I may, that's where the most dangerous solutions lie. When there's a legitimate use of them but they can be abused.