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by nonrandomstring 876 days ago
Yes indeed.

I think where this goes wrong is when Bob in purchasing confuses can use this approved supplier with must use this supplier and fails to notice said supplier about to be bankrupted in court over a multi-billion security scandal, and goes ahead anyway.

Voila! We just bought a couple million IoT bricks and doorstops that will be in a landfill next week.