Dude should have just added comments indicating that the code was part of some security test but was unfinished and extremely dangerous.
Change a few file names, add a comment how it will never run under normal circumstances, and you’ve got plausible deniability.
Honestly, if I had done something like this and they twigged to it, I’d consider just fucking off and joining the French foreign legion.
I actually think I want to give this guy a pat on the back
Every person that has worked in a sysadmin type role, has joked about doing something like this. Very few actually carry through with it. So, in a way, I kinda like this guy for actually doing it, even if he didn’t cover his tracks very well.
So he was pissed because they gave him less work to do???
I’m trying to understand it
IT work is feast or famine.
“IT people, your not doing anything, what the hell do we pay you for?”
“IT people, everything is on fire, what the hell do we pay you for?”
How is that feast or famine
I think they mean in terms of workload, not like pay or something. Either you have a lot of work, or very little work. But when you’re needed, you’re needed urgently.
i goes it is ON not OR
Part of me sympathizes with the guy, but this was reckless
I’d argue that he gave them extra code, a bonus if you will.
and unlike dennis nedry, he didn’t have to get killed by a dinosaur to do it.
I developed a spreadsheet for a company I worked for a few jobs ago. When I left I used a picture of Dennis to lock everyone out of the spreadsheet but only for one day, months after I left. Stupid idea, but felt good.
Edit: this was it:
I had created a few things on Google sheets that my coworkers were using. It wasn’t anything groundbreaking, but one was a spreadsheet I’d made that had all of our driver’s availability to assist with scheduling. The sheets were on my personal account, and we didn’t end on good terms, so I just locked them all out. It was funny getting all the texts asking for access the next day. I told them to make their own.
your honor, I would move to dismiss on grounds that my clients actions were based as fuck.
I’m disappointed they found so much in his search history. Do these people not have phones? In this day and age with everyone carrying a smartphone, there’s no excuse for using work computers for personal activities
The smart criminals never get caught…
That’s why you only hear about the dumb ones
Did it say they went through his work search history? Everything you search on Google with your IP or through your account is recorded, in case law enforcement knocks. Don’t think using a phone protects you. Use a trusted VPN in a separate browser if you want to search for things and not have them show up in court.
I think that what happens on a work computer, a work network, belongs to the company and they are free to check it at will.
However my phone, and what happens on the network it’s attached to are between me and my provider, and usually needs a warrant for someone to look through.
In this day and age with everyone carrying a smartphone, there’s no excuse for using work computers for personal activities
There are plenty of reasons, mostly amounting to “Nobody tends to give a fuck” and “I’m not running out to buy a second high end laptop just to casually browse the web from my couch on the weekend”.
What you’ve got is a very poorly enforced, very draconianly executed set of deliberately vague and inarticulate rules that vary from company to company. And none of that really has anything to do with the “kill switch” thing. In the same way you might say “Well but obviously nobody should smoke weed in a state that criminalizes it! That’s just stupid!” when you’ve got the police tearing apart a particular person’s house for a completely unrelated issue, based on an officer’s exclamation of “I smell weed!” at the front porch.
Just accept you live in a police state and stop buying into excuses made to surveil and punish.
I’m not running out to buy a second high end laptop just to casually browse the web
Even the cheapest laptop or tablet will cover that need
But when you’re at work, planning criminal activities, the least you can do is save your searches for “how to be a criminal mastermind” on your personal phone
don’t underestimate how lazy and stupid even the smartest person can be.
Weird that these protections exist for corporations that aren’t actually people but no protections exist for the person who was fired.
And how our legal system is setup to best defend the wealthy.
They are the protagonists of democracy after all.
Democracy™®
Manifest!
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yeah it’s pretty crazy. almost like government is for some things and not others, and knows it, like maybe laws were always just an excuse and tool for victim blaming. or something.
The amazing thing is that the government doesn’t get nearly as much tax income as you’d expect from these hugs companies. It’s almost as if the politicians have some other, secret motivating factor. Oh well, I guess we’ll never know.
wait, are you saying that there’s this class that are the beneficiaries of governments and laws, and it’s the same as the class that doesn’t suffer any limitations when they do stuff that the governments and laws don’t like?
and that we’re in this other class, that the laws and stuff exist to punish, but has to fund them and pay for them, or we get punished for that too?
that’s fucking crazy.
Exactly my thought. A corporation destroys people’s lives by firing them? Nothing. Someone actually pushes back? Suddenly the government gets involved.
We never left serfdom.
Everyone you have ever met is a servant of the ruling class.
You have never met a ruler and probably never will.
Eg pictures of dozens of police protecting tesla dealerships
I don’t see how pretending that’s weird is gonna help anyone.
We all know we don’t live in a just world.
We need to try and make it one, instead of pretending we’re living in one which happens to have horrid injustice happening all the time.
I’m no English major, but I’m pretty sure @SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world calling it weird is a rhetorical device known as sarcasm.
Hmm, I wonder if it is actually. I think it’s just a euphemism for it’s wrong how" or “it’s weird how we as people keep allowing this to happen in a democratic world”, but I honestly don’t think it’s sarcasm.
I get the point and I write that way all the time too, but I thought to see what happens if I just stop participating in the pretense of it being weird.
But yes maybe it is just sarcasm, but like the same sort of rhetoric is often used to talk about problems which are sort of too complex and large to easily assert something which should or even could be done.
But yes. Sarcasm.
r/iamverysmart
Tbh, what shocks me the most about this is how sloppy this appears to have been executed.
Talk about incentivizing us to make even more impactful kill switches!
He fucked up. But it’s also kinda funny.
A 55-year-old software developer
… and…
Lu had worked at Eaton Corp. for about 11 years when he apparently became disgruntled by a corporate “realignment” in 2018 that “reduced his responsibilities,” the DOJ said.
So he was 48 at the time he started this. Was he planning on retiring from all work at 48? I can’t imagine any other employer would want to touch him with a 10ft (3.048 meters) pole after he actively sabotaged his prior employer’s codebase causing global outages.
I’m sure DOGE is actively considering hiring him.
