Comment by cimnine
4 years ago
IMO the most important lesson to learn from such incidents is that you should never put shitty content in „emails that never get sent“, because eventually they might get sent out anyway. That way you’re fuck-up is just a minor annoyance — to laugh about and tell the tales how everyone also fucked-up that one time — rather than an actual shit-storm.
This one is pretty tame. I feel like we have all been tempted to write ridiculous test data -- "Dear Valued Customer, we regret to inform you that the HBO Max Defraculator has been compromised and your credit card details have been sold to a self-aware purchasing bot. We are sorry and wish you the best." Sending that to your customers is a minor disaster. Sending "This template is to be used by integration tests only." will be ignored by everyone who isn't a software engineer.