From: seaohveh@hoffmanlabs.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-12 12:40:56 +0000, gcalliet said:   
      
   > And as usual, the issue is between the "must" and the "can".   
      
   Rock versus Hard Place.   
      
   If you can't maintain your tools, you're headed for increasing costs   
   and increasing trouble.   
      
   Sooner or later the management strategy of deny, delay, deceive, and   
   distract enters remission and updates and migrations can ensue, or the   
   project implodes, or the business implodes.   
      
   When management seeks assignment of blame, best avoid being obviously   
   culpable when (when, not if) things go sideways. Paper trails,   
   retirement, prosecutorial cooperation, wealth, various ways to reduce   
   or avoid blame.   
      
   This having witnessed management deciding to fix problems, and projects   
   that went from inconceivable and impossible going into production   
   deployment with alacrity. And having witnessed breaches. And management   
   firings. And insider crimes.   
      
   Here? Bastion hosts, network isolation, ongoing network scans for   
   shenanigans. And plans for and budgets for maintenance and upgrades.   
   Otherwise,  the scheduled downtime becomes unscheduled downtime.   
      
      
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