Absolutely: Cisco made this happen, not Engineer Alice. If your boss asks you to do something within my ethical boundaries and you have 5 tired co-workers in favour of shipping it, eventually you'll break and say "fine". It doesn't make you responsible or the one that pulled the trigger.
The fact that this fix made it to prod tells you that something is deeply deeply broken with cisco’s processes that goes well beyond any individual’s responsibility.
Exactly. It's not like somebody just did this like in a three people startup. There are code reviews and quality management and many more, and this lousy "fix" has passed all those stages and instances. If nobody declined this, there's a serious problem within Cisco.
