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AMA Request: HBO Intern who sent an integration test email to millions

8 points by anayar ↗ HN
If there is an intern wielding this much power and tasked with such a daunting project I would (a) like to apply to this internship, screw my years of experience... and (b) I’d like to hear from them.

Can’t just be me?

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salawat
Technically, any tester generally has this level of access if you can manage to at least once justify a prod access grant.

The level of process fail to not have that access revoked when you're done with it... That's another story...

aprdm
It's really easy to do that wrongly... for example, you Q&A or integration tests database has the last back up of prod so that you can test with real data.

Of course you shouldn't do that, but, it's very common out there.

quickthrower2
Sounds like an accidental security exploit rather than genuine power
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