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Dipshit. Just do bad coding and leave timebombs that could be considered an accident.

For developers in similar situations, where the corporate overlords make your life miserable; use dead man's triggers Instead of a simple killswitch: manually start handling certificates, introduce memory leaks that you can easily clear, have excessive disk filling logs that you can daily clear, and all kinds of other stuff that is a perpetual dumpster fire that you extinguish as part of your job. Oh, and don't forget to forget commenting and documenting. The next developer should instantly learn the pressure they have been putting on you.

company ruins life of employee: stonk

employee ruin company: immediate imprisonment

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Ultimately, Eaton Corp. bore substantial costs getting its network back online

actually, it did nothing to the company but cost it a few bucks. do not pass go/collect $200.

this person was not fired, he was laid off. he was not actively harming the company until the company ruined his life.

The defendant breached his employer’s trust

The company breached employee trust when they fired a bunch of people during a "realignment".

Four years is far too long. If he had run over the CEO in the parking lot he wouldn't have gotten four years.

4 YEARS?! And gaming companies can just build a kill switch into their game and get no penalty?

Have to make an example of them lest the surfs realize they have power

No one reviwing his code? Sounds like a timebomb in its self.

Sounds like he could have been a bit more creative in implementing this. Having something immediately traceable back to a username is no bueno.

What he did was brazen and stupid but 4 years sounds a bit excessive. Unless the journalist is under reporting what happened, he didn't do any long-term damage just probably knocked them offline for a day and required somebody to come in and manually reset the drsm account in the domain controller.

But in a fit of rage and passion he built out booby traps and put his name all over everything. He wanted them to know it was him, How do you absolutely denied himself plausible deniability.

All he had to do was pretend he was inept and replace service accounts with his own login. Push 90-day password resets on the account for 'security'. Set up a house of cards out of security certificates.

The company probably walked into that court with a technically competent team of lawyers and a bunch of expert testimony, he probably had a state defender.

Kinda funny. 4 years seems excessive to me but what do I know.

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.

this was stupid. A career ending move. no one’s gonna hire someone who wrote a logic bomb at their last job.

I'm curious what this crowd thinks is an appropriate punishment here. No priors, found guilty, caused some lost revenue (which I have to admit doesn't mean you actually lost revenue). So, should they even be sent to jail? House arrest? Or do we just want consistency in punishments?

Good. Some one should sponsor and hire this guy.

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