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0 pointssoared8y ago0 comments

My most favorite of all razors is Hanlon's: "do not attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity"

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Not sure how that's applicable here? Seems like an ex-admin deleting things is pretty clearly malicious...

He's saying the current admins are stupid for not investigating every possible route an ex admin could take for tanking the business.

soaredOP8y ago

Don't necesarrily attribute the error to the ex-admin, because the current admins were stupid enough to let it happen. Yes, the ex-admin is wrong and shouldn't have done it, but it is a crime of opportunity.

If I leave $20 on the sidewalk the thief is wrong for stealing it, but it is partially my fault for being stupid enough to leave $20 on the ground.

nemothekid8y ago

I'm not sure I can agree with the reasoning here. An ex-admin, who had the conviction to wipe an entire company's database, probably wouldn't have been stopped by exit procedures.

This can easily happen to anyone -

    5PM Friday - $admin and $ceo have a fight
    6PM Friday - $admin decides he's had enough with $company and $ceo, and wipes everything
    7PM Friday - $admin is fired

Where are your exit procedures now? Are the current admins stupid for not having the foresight that $admin and $ceo's fight would have resulted in the worst?

marzell8y ago

This is way more like throwing away your old roommate's belongings because they didn't change the locks when you moved out. Anyone would take a $20 bill on the ground with no way of knowing the previous owner. Not everyone would maliciously destroy someone else's property just because they had access. Yes, current admins could and should have done more to prevent this. However, this goes way beyond opportunity and firmly into malicious intent.

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