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my work 20 years ago.
Oct. 8th, 2020 07:50 pm20 years ago I started working for Nortel as a contractor. One of my first assignments was to write a script in C to automatically stress test creating tons of entries in a pre-SQL database (developed in 70s) that was storing cellular network configs.
The database mixed data with code processing it, so each config had to be tested separately. The config I had to test was lawful intercept config. For every cell phone number that could be eavesdropped on, there should have been an agency name string and court order/secret order number attached.
So I added MI6 with secret order numbers beginning with 007, and KGB with secret order numbers beginning with 1937, and ran tests where most of cell subscribers were being listened to by KGB.
The database mixed data with code processing it, so each config had to be tested separately. The config I had to test was lawful intercept config. For every cell phone number that could be eavesdropped on, there should have been an agency name string and court order/secret order number attached.
So I added MI6 with secret order numbers beginning with 007, and KGB with secret order numbers beginning with 1937, and ran tests where most of cell subscribers were being listened to by KGB.
