272
Kinda funny. 4 years seems excessive to me but what do I know.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
272 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
3951 readers
423 users here now
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
Post guidelines
[Opinion] prefix
Opinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original link
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
!globalnews@lemmy.zip
!interestingshare@lemmy.zip
Icon attribution | Banner attribution
If someone is interested in moderating this community, message @brikox@lemmy.zip.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
this was stupid. A career ending move. no one’s gonna hire someone who wrote a logic bomb at their last job.
Kinda heroic, ngl. I think the prison sentence is appropriate, but if I was let go after 11 years, I’d harbor fantasies of doing something similar. They’d stay fantasies, though.
Prison? For shutting down the computers? How many lives were lost because of his actions, how many were saved?
Lives lost is not the test of what was a crime and what was a prank. This could have done a lot of damage to everyone who worked there and any of there clients. The company could have done more but they can't micro manage everyone nor should they.
That company DID harm people. They get a pass though. They're s company. The people st the too are better than us peons
You probably think pirating media is a crime. Watch as I wipe my fake tears. Don't be a corporate boot licker, I mean when you have an evil corporation you wouldn't want someone to sabotage it right? Meanwhile company can break the law destroy the environment make billions and get a couple hundred thousand fine,with NO fucking jail time.
I don’t know what his former company does, but it’s easy to imagine scenarios on both ends of the spectrum. From processing Bejeweled microtransaction payments to ER intake or ambulance dispatch. Doesn’t really matter in the end. Software is everywhere and we all use it. Unless the company is so bad that damaging it is a political act of defiance against evil (I’m looking at you, Nestle, Blackwater, etc), then there’s really no good argument for employees burning shit on their way out.
It could have shut down the company. I imagine there clients are looking to move to a competitor as they may be more trustworthy.
It appears to be a company that makes software for power plants. I wonder how secure their software is.
Corporations are like billionaires you don't become one without willfully destroying the planet, stealing wages from the labor, and sometimes straight up murder. If you look hard enough they are cancer.
Good, make sure you document that. Then be sure any such thing that accidentally happens is named after the person who most deserves to be pruned.
Got it. MouselemmingFromLemmyKillswitch.exe pushed to production
This is really well executed, too bad he didn't know enough to protect his identity.
Still, so much for that reduced cost of labor.
If more people reacted like this companies wouldn't be so fast to lay people off
Should have done a dead man's switch instead
Slow enshitification is easier and blameless.
I imagine you must be quite skilled to be able to manage your whole-ass company (and run their systems into the ground). So it shouldn't be a problem to get another job after being fired.
Why fuck with your future, just because of your own ego and a drive for revenge? That guy must've watched too many animes.
Because the rich and elite are powerful because people fear them.
Show them we aren't afraid. Thus guy will vs hired in no time