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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • One time I was deleting a user from our MySQL-backed RADIUS database.

    DELETE * FROM PASSWORDS;

    And yeah, if you don’t have a WHERE clause? It just deletes everything. About 60,000 records for a decent-sized ISP.

    That afternoon really, really sucked. We had only ad-hoc backups. It was not a well-run business.

    Now when I interview sysadmins (or these days devops), I always ask about their worst cock-up. It tells you a lot about a candidate.




  • If you have civil and criminal causes of action, it’s often expedient to pursue the criminal one first, as it’s admissible as evidence in the civil case—the reverse isn’t usually true. I would be very surprised if there were not a settlement very soon, which unfortunately we will probably never hear about.

    With the facts of the criminal case, I don’t think they would have any difficulty at all getting a legal team to go after EBay. It’s a risk/reward thing for them and the pockets they’d be going after are very deep.