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[–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Does it actually happen to people? All servers I worked with both had a back door (or two), and someone at the data centre (during work hours at least) you could contact in an emergency.

I guess some smaller companies might have simpler setups they self-host

[–] tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Most data centers have some kind of service where you can request a KVM to be connected to the server. It's not instant as an actual human has to do so but a lot sooner than another human driving long distance. I guess in this case, it's a mid size company that is big enough to have multiple locations yet small enough to still manage to use on-premise infra instead of data centers.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

iptables default DENY and flush the rules. Done by at least two people I know (then me) at the same company. Led to them moving the servers in-house and virtualizing some services to connect to the hypervisor. It does happen though.

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