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One line of code caused AT&T to lose $60 million (engineercodex.substack.com)
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[–] beefpeach@infosec.pub 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Recently, I paid ATT $500 to close my account and zero it out.

Fast forward 6 months, they send me a letter saying they need $300 more for cancellation fees or it will be sent to collections.

Write all the bad code you can, papi.

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure it's cancellation fees? This doesn't seem legal.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

There are contract breaking fees attached to contracts sometime to prevent switching providers. I'm pretty sure everybody agrees it reduces competition.