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Now, the question of will anyone look at what you wrote is a bit harder to answer and it depends on the size of your organization. My firm will not really look unless there is a HR or legal request or you pop up in some reporting of malicious site visits.
This is such a terrible idea I cannot wrap my head around why any one thinks pasting a password is a vulnerability. If someone is on the system and can see the clip board, you are screwed regardless.
I have never gotten up at 3am to fix an outage because outages do not impact systems that widely. If it is a network problem, let the network team do their job. All of your other problems are solved with multiple HA/ load balanced servers, monitoring, and proper testing.
While there is always someone else's mess you have to support, that does not seem like a great teaching moment to me.
This seems like a waste of a good night's sleep to me.
In addition, we used our tests for many of the same things the author recommended such as running a thousand instances concurrently to load test and using parameterized inputs to test the database indirectly. It lends some incredible abilities to verify over and over the application works.
(I used Selenium and a number of add ons to do this on our web application)
The interesting part is that the NSA is compelled at all to help. Why would they? Give up their toys and secrets to help another agency go after someone who is already dead seems to put them in peril for little/ no gain. Unless you believe the "dormant cyber pathogen"[1] line holds any water (which it does not).
[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/san-bernardino-da...
In addition, there is no way this person would interact with the dev team, PR, journalists, and data teams themselves. There are too many people giving input for a business of more than 10 people to go this sideways.
Now I'm hungry...
Weather is nice and there are plenty of firms moving to the area. The only downside is that traffic is increasing, but there is enough sprawl it is not a huge issue. Startups are coming out of major universities and office space and co-work spaces abound. Aside from the hot months and increasing traffic, it is pretty great so far.
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