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I know it’s a meme but I’d notify the lawyer before coding that, they’ll laugh themselves silly. Electronic vandalism is still vandalism only the damages are higher.
But if AI executes it…
If AI is so smart (it’s not) it can take your job, then it should clearly recognize what is clearly meant as a joke…
If I damage $25k worth of stuff that’s my problem
If I damage $25 million worth of code that’s my former employer’s problem
Until a judge rules that you’ll be paying that back over the rest of your life so every month a large court-orderd chunk of your paycheck will leave your account.
You missed my point entirely…
It will still be made your problem by the judge even if your employer doesn’t recover that money will still end up being paid to the majority shareholders.
That is unless you were planning to live without income or decide not to continue living.
What precisely about your point did I miss?
You generally can’t pursue someone for debt after a bankruptcy declaration, depending on the country. So if you’re 25M in debt, you go bankrupt and they can’t chase you for any more. You lose all your current assets, but at least you can rebuild a life. Still, rough path to choose.
That’s not how judicial fines work, they know most people don’t have that amount in the bank so there’s zero point asking for the lump sum. Their aim is to disincentivise future “vandals” by making an example out of the first one. You won’t be able to escape the payments which will be unavoidable due to bankruptcy because a portion of your wages will be garnished so that you’ll have just enough to survive but the rest you’ll be paying back for the rest of your life.
Look what’s happening to that cunt Alex Jones, he can’t escape the settlement to the Sandy Hook families by bankruptcy so he’s doing everything he can to hide his income and assets and appeal the judgement.
Mmmm yes but if you detonate a truck bomb you will die as well 😏🤔 you might destroy your employer but you will destroy yourself in the process as well! ☝️🤓 Which would be very bad for you! And if you survived the judge would surely throw the book at you 😏
So you’re suicidal?
Look I’m all for fucking over the corpo bastards but if you’re planning on sacrificing yourself because you truly think an ideal or cause is worth more than your life you’d be better off destroying the backups, blowing up the offices, and Luigi-ing the entire board of directors.
OR find some other way to fuck them over that doesn’t sacrifice your own life.
Go touch grass
It’s so wild to see all the fucking hall monitors in here wagging their fingers.
You all deserve whatever you get.
I’m just concerned about their poor opsec
Agreed, if this is true you should not be posting about it at all no matter where it is. It’s best to just keep it quiet because the company at this point can probably get law enforcement involved if they ID the person. The only time a company should know something is going on in this situation your lawyer should already be fully involved.
That’s why you’re usually put on garden leave immediately after being told. Or if in the US, just straight up kicked out I guess.
What’s garden leave, it’s the first time I hear that expression
You get paid, but you’re not allowed to come to work. You’re banned from the workplace, usually as a security/safety measure, but because of labour laws or contractual obligations they can’t stop paying you yet.
A way to play your life 50-50, where some people will be “the company got what they deserved” and most likely you will find a job, and some other people will be “what an ass hole, he shouldn’t do that” and never find a job after.
Or “that’s hilarious but I’m not hiring him”.
Have you accounted for your access being revoked before you are notified about your fate?
Depends on whether HR and IT are competent.
If they’re going all in on AI, I have my doubts.
I got laid off almost 2 years ago. I now work for the same company again working fewer hours at much higher pay. Layoffs aren’t necessarily the end, and they can very much be the start of renegotiating your position
You should write a book.
I know entire departments that share the same story.
I’d pretend to read it for sure
I’m already pretending to read their work. But for now it’s just comments…
I’m pretending to read pretend comments about a pretend book about a pretend situation!
Yea, this is the reason I held my tongue when the company CEO who laid me off last year (Who I worked directly under) posted something about investing in the people who further their goals. Because I had a bunch of very snarky I could have clapped back with, but I decided to not burn the bridge
This guy will never be pro union.
Posting pragmatic advice of “don’t burn bridges” on a post advocating for committing career-ending crimes against your former employer is somehow anti-union? Da fuq?
this is why we should code backdoors while working !
Exactly. Social media ruined some people. You build your backdoor and do this shit well after you’re gone… And if you ever brag to a stranger, you did it for the wrong reasons.
The reality is people get laid off or fired for all sorts of reasons. This is the IT equivalent of setting fire to the equipment that you used to build something and the production prototype and walking out the door thinking you can just just leave and get away with it.
In this guy’s fantasy he would be doing 10 to 20 years of prison time if he gets caught and charged with both state and federal crimes. And let’s be real, he’ll definitely get caught.
If you’ve ever been let go by a corp you know you’re gonna need some sort of remote trigger. They’ll say “Can I see you for a minute?” and then BOOM! out the door.
Deadman switch. Hit the button before all meetings and if you aren’t back in 2 hours to disable it then it would execute.
Run it on a separate machine / account. In big corporate environments, your user account could be disabled by the time you walk into the meeting room.
Better solution, if you can, work for open source companies: at least the codebase is already public!
Better, plant it on the account if that co-worker you hate, and still works there, operated off a remote. Then he gets the blame.
If you’re in a position to have access make this sort of thing, you likely have access to code bases or system accounts. This is a good way to go to prison IMO.
I actually used to know a guy who pulled this sort of thing. Got 4 years, $100k fine and $428k in damages owed. Caused a huge number of problems for an energy company for a month because he got wind they were going to fire him.
I prefer my version of it, which is knowing both who to contact at our largest customers. I’m under no contract that prevents me from showing a customer where and how the metaphorical bodies are buried were I to be terminated. I could do the other kind of stuff, trivially even, but that’s likely to end in prison…
I’ve been in these sorts of situations (had enormous access to critical systems and data and was poorly treated by employer), but logically I just don’t think it is worth the risk to myself, my family, and my future in general to get revenge on these sort of things. It would need to be some sort of Princess Bride situation (“You killed my father, now prepare to die”) kind of thing to bring me to that sort of insanity.
I have also had coworkers that did similar-ish things and they were quite lucky that all that happened was that they were immediately fired and blackballed.
The trick is to not have to actively do anything, but rather take advantage that employment termination means you legally can not actively do things. A case I recall from a friend was a coworker of his who simply happened to be the only one to know how a particular critical system operated, because the rest of the staff never bothered reading the documentation for emergency. He was not paid for his overtimes for long enough and when he eventually stopped taking overtimes, they fired him for some AI-grade hallucination like “lack of commitment”. Four days after he was fired, they tried to order him to come back for an emergency like he owed them that maintenamce. Though cookie, the company and he signed an employment termination agreement to both their satisfactions that he has no legal obligation to the company.
From what I recall, the recovery procedure was three lines over a telnet connection. No one could even bother to open one (1) tab with the doc and type “HyperTerminal” in the Windows menu, lol.
Oh that trick I fully employed. They had to retire 19 internal applications within a year of me leaving :D
Ah, the displeasure of working with Odoo I see there in the background.
Why is it that?
What about the other two? Is one an ejector seat?
Button 1 : Gaslight them
Button 2 : decode corporate BS
Did this once to a company that treated me disrespectful. In the 90s when I still worked. To not go into any detail: Set a timer for 7 months after I was gone. Virus started infecting everything slowly so that even the backups were useless. I knew their schedule, it was not optimal and not very secure. Well, another few months later, company was sold cheap. Employees taken over and all happy now.
You made this shit up.
He made it look like a Y2K bug 🤓
You’re free to have this opinion. But even if I would be dumb enough to prove it, I wouldn’t know why I should 😁
You 100% made that shit up. Good joke though.
How do you test that it actually works?
Create a file named “test” then confirm you can push it to public, rename the test string in your script to .env and then realise you didn’t account for special characters in strings! SHIT!
ways to be sued to suicide 1145.
“See you just press this button right here and oh shitshitshITSHIT”
