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Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And now imagine doing this or sort of this destruction in a smaller company that has one to three mediocre admins at highest. One can kill this company and they would never get it why the computers got weird.

[–] Ksptm4@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I actually think I want to give this guy a pat on the back

[–] Toes@ani.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the timebombs in windows 2000. I guess he's forced to start fresh.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Timebombs in Windows 2000?

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Timebombs in windows 2000!

[–] H4mi@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit that is a large number

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

out of the loop :

2000 x 1999 x 1998 x ... x 3 x2 x 1 = 2000 !

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Part of me sympathizes with the guy, but this was reckless

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Koala tea internal code review practices

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