I work in cybersecurity. This sort of thing doesn’t happen. Quality control is critical in devops, because what you’re seeing happen right now is exactly what happens if you don’t test.
The fact that this happened is validation of Hanlon’s Razor, but which is it? Malice or incompetence?
Just more incompetence...that’s all. Incompetence.
We call it Nolnah’s Razor: When people (especially governmental people) hate you and your values, never attribute to Incompetence what can be attributed to Malice.
“I work in cybersecurity. This sort of thing doesn’t happen.”
You must work for the only IT company that has never had a deployment go wrong.
It can happen.
I believe it was a few months ago that a trusted 2-year linux kernel submitter sabotaged the distributions. Pardon the lack of hard details, but IIRC, 10% of the distribution base subject to regular patching suffered the exploit. Corrective patches were available within ~12 hours. A related article appeared in the The Register. BTW, the take away concerned the pros & cons of Open Source where the pros outweighed the cons.