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This reminds me of the story where someone accidentally deletes the database and there are no backups. Who's at fault? The individual IT employee who made a mistake, or the entire organization (especially leaders) who created a situation where one person could delete the database and there are no backups?

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There is a whole field devoted to this called governance.

You can safely assume that every company or org which fell to ransomware campaigns didn't have proper backups. Because such a restore wouldn't be in the news as serious outage.

The percentage of no backups seem to be crazy. I only read about the Central bank of Sambia being able to restore from backups, everyone else was down. All these responsible should be fired.

I’m baffled that anyone is even asking the question..

Anyone reading this, if you are of the “well the employee whole typed the command is to blame!” opinion, could you please reply to this comment? I need to know what you think the purpose of a hierarchy is in the workplace.

..needless to say, responsibility for your direct reports is yours. If they fuck up, you fucked up. You have the choice to hire and fire at will. You choose who has access to take chances. You own the wins and the losses. If you’re a good leader you redistribute the wins and dissolve the losses. It’s the entire job.

It’s 2024. There are no kings or dictators in the workplace.

It's a rhetorical question that's effective because the answer is obvious.

You would think so, but one time an undergraduate IT guy in my school's computer lab essentially ran an `rm -rf` on all the students' home directories 2 weeks from the end of the semester. It turns out the lab's backups weren't working. The email from the department was pretty quick to throw that kid under the bus.

Are you trying to say that a university IT department was a toxic workplace? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

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