• PhilipTheBucketMA
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    2 days ago

    There are so many ways to engineer something into the system that will go sideways in some nightmarish way if you are not there to prevent it.

    I get that not every person has write privileges on every piece of software that is important anywhere in the company, let alone a steady enough rate of commits to sneak something into production. But that’s where you gotta get creative. Or, if you’re just going to write an explicit bomb that is hooked up to a isDLEnabledInAD() function, you gotta just not be in the country anymore when it goes off or something.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    As someone currently jobless because of corporate greed this does put a smile on my face, but he should have covered his tracks better lol

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      Ya definitely, he should have added a bunch of people to that kill switch with similar permissions that way he would have plausible deniability at least. I wouldn’t have done this, if I hated my job that much, I would have tried to find a different one.