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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] TeamAssimilation 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If they accepted the job, absolutely yes. ignorantia juris non excusat.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Well, yes, except not for executives because they’re special. And they have golden parachutes.

But wow if I was to take over some of the VP roles I’ve seen with the risk they accept, there would be years of work just patching shit.