How Finding a Fun Little Bug Can Avert Disaster — Medium
This is a story of how an afternoon causing mischief with a little bug in a video game led me to on a quest to purge a potentially dangerous exploit from software used by businesses and governments around the world, and also provided me with a practical lesson on why to report issues you find in code, even if they seem small at first.
It all started one afternoon this past Fall in an undergraduate class on entrepreneurship I was taking at Harvard Business School. We were learning about how to work effectively in small teams by participating in one of the Business School's simulations, which is used to teach professional executives lessons on teamwork.
We were put in groups of five and told that our goal was to work together as a team to (virtually) summit a mountain. Each of us was given a link to the simulation website and once we logged into the site we were greeted with a screen telling us about the unique role our assigned character was to play within the team. One person was the leader, one was an experienced mountaineer, one was a medic, and I was of course given the exceedingly useful role of environmentalist 😒🌳
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