There is virtually no reason whatsoever for this problem to exist. This is the domain of "making a problem more risky and complicated than it needs to be" and royally screwing people in the process.
Might as well throw the paperwork in a bin and set fire to it.
And the converse: sufficiently clever sabotage is indistinguishable from a bug, as evidenced by the "Xerox copier randomly prints penises" prank:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157422
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This should be on the computer risks digest.
There is virtually no reason whatsoever for this problem to exist. This is the domain of "making a problem more risky and complicated than it needs to be" and royally screwing people in the process.
Might as well throw the paperwork in a bin and set fire to it.
Sufficiently advanced bugs are indistinguishable from sabotage.
And the converse: sufficiently clever sabotage is indistinguishable from a bug, as evidenced by the "Xerox copier randomly prints penises" prank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157422