So he was pissed because they gave him less work to do???
I'm trying to understand it
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Dude should have just added comments indicating that the code was part of some security test but was unfinished and extremely dangerous.
Change a few file names, add a comment how it will never run under normal circumstances, and you've got plausible deniability.
And now imagine doing this or sort of this destruction in a smaller company that has one to three mediocre admins at highest. One can kill this company and they would never get it why the computers got weird.
I actually think I want to give this guy a pat on the back
Part of me sympathizes with the guy, but this was reckless
Reminds me of the timebombs in windows 2000. I guess he's forced to start fresh.
Timebombs in Windows 2000?
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