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Mark O' Donnell • Edited

In my first job I managed a firewall configuration app for a large Telco. It allowed Fortune 500 companies to make firewall changes on their network. Can’t remember the exact problem but long story short I changed something which stopped anyone logging in at all. No-one could make any changes in for 2 days until we found the issue. 😳

This was particularly bad because it affected bonuses that year, whooops! πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚