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

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[–] snf@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

It's actually kind of worrisome that they have to guess it was his code based on the function/method name. Do these people not use version control? I guess not, they sure as hell don't do code reviews if this guy managed to get this code into production

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I assumed that the code was running on a machine that Lu controlled.
Most companies I have worked at had code reviews, but it was on the honor system. I am supposed to get reviews for all the code I push to main, but there is nothing stopping me from checking in code that was not reviewed (or getting code reviewed and making a change before pushing it). My coworkers trust me to follow the process and allow me to break the rules in an emergency.