2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's hand picked it company let the database get hacked twice. Why do they still have the job? [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)failing in this way every time there is an upgrade or patch. Sanders' team reported this co-mingling multiple times since October.
Can you imagine if every time facebook put on a security patch, people's facebook data got co-mingled?
If every time a hospital's sw system had a security hole patched, patient data was co-mingled?
If this is an ongoing problem, then when they are applying patches, they should do what other companies do. Advise clients that the s/w will be down for x period of time -- usually at the lowest use timeframe, like overnight -- while an upgrade is done. And then after they patch, they make sure there are no bugs before they bring it back up.
If they can take hospital sw down for some number of hours for upgrades -- and they do that, so everybody runs around doing things on paper temporarily -- then they can do that for this.