On: Citibank IT guy deliberately wiped routers, shut down 90% of firm’s US networks

[atmosx]

And who's going to design the backup scheme, the management? One more click to erase all backup servers, I mean since we're here...

Point in case, as parent commentator said, it's not the kind of problem that you solve with technology.

[joenathan → atmosx]

Don't need to have the ability to delete, with create and append access one could also just corrupt all the backups.

[typetypetype → atmosx]

Right - going down for a day can be damaging enough for some companies. Not allowing one person to click the "erase" button in the first place should be the focus. How hard could it be to implement a system where two or more people have to issue a command before it runs?