https://joestead.codes/tags/war-stories/Recent content in war-stories on Joe SteadHugoen-gbThu, 04 Jun 2026 21:21:55 +0100https://joestead.codes/posts/everyone-is-right/Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0100https://joestead.codes/posts/everyone-is-right/<p>A few years ago I read a story of a software consultant raising concerns about software a defence company owned. He finds memory leaks all through it, flags them to the company, and gets a four-word reply: &ldquo;Of course it leaks.&rdquo;</p> <p>No alarm. No fix on the way. The company was completely comfortable with a bug that in most systems would be a serious problem.</p> <p>Although I&rsquo;ve never experienced a scenario exactly like this myself, there are parallels with something I recently experienced. I walked in with about as little context as that bug report carried, and the reaction threw me the same way.</p>