There are ghosts in the machine. Not the poetic kind. I mean literal, running-code-with-root-access kind. The kind that was set up ten years ago by an admin who retired five jobs ago. The kind that still wakes up every night at 3:30 a.m.; processes something no one remembers, and then quietly vanishes into the system logs. Until, of course, something goes wrong—or someone takes advantage of it. Welcome to the world of dead man’s scripts: outdated, unsupervised scheduled tasks buried deep inside legacy systems. These aren’t theoretical risks. They’re real, persistent, and dangerously overlooked…
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