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It's always interesting to see the systems that get engineered (engineer themselves? abiogenerate?) as externalities. It's like a scaled up pathological version of https://xkcd.com/1172/

I don't think this is common enough to justify having pentesters think about your corporate procedures' exposure to such behavior but it's definitely an interesting thing to think about when designing sensitive human or mixed human/computer systems.

Edit: word building fix




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