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[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

Over a decade ago I was hired as a third party to a third party to a company that was hired by some confidential customer we would never get the identity of. There was some biometric stuff involved on the project, to which we had to import some devices - but they got stuck on customs for a while simply because it had bio in the name. We tried to make do with what we could and were pretty confident when we tested with the real device on the last day before a supposed presentation we also knew nothing about.

Next day we get the news: it went terrible. And we got a feedback: "it failed to identify most kids on the school". That's fair, we never even considered testing it with kids.