A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.
Every single high level IT-manager I’ve met except one has been completely clueless about IT and only gotten the position by licking ass and promising meaningless things that sounds good to the equally clueless board or executives (like “we will use AI in over 60% of our business by the end of the year”).
When entirely predictable shit eventually hits the fan, they redirect all blame.
The agency responsible for providing medical information over phone and the internet in Sweden kept the recorded phone conversations of patients calling them on a publicly accessible NAS in Thailand.
… how in the… oO… but … backup strategy and… restore tests… who was in charge of the IT?!?
Every single high level IT-manager I’ve met except one has been completely clueless about IT and only gotten the position by licking ass and promising meaningless things that sounds good to the equally clueless board or executives (like “we will use AI in over 60% of our business by the end of the year”).
When entirely predictable shit eventually hits the fan, they redirect all blame.
The agency responsible for providing medical information over phone and the internet in Sweden kept the recorded phone conversations of patients calling them on a publicly accessible NAS in Thailand.
oooh boy, you don’t happend to have a good source on that swedish thing, do you? i gotta read about that too
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2021/swedish-dpa-investigation-1177-incident-finalized_en
It’s missing the now iconic quote about how “An internet cable had accendentally become connected to the hard drive”.
new guy, think he said his name was Jim Kong