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Coder faces 10 years' jailtime for creating a 'kill switch' that screwed-up his employers' systems when he was laid off (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Probably shouldn't have put his name on it, mind.

Case file: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/US-v-Lu-2021.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Organize to steal the people's money through fraudulent charges, and give it to rich people: All is well

As one of the people, organize to fuck up the rich people's operation, even if you're not even stealing their money or anything: Panik

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

::tummy grumbles::

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The people you hurt by doing stuff like this is almost never the rich people at the top. It's the former co-workers and others at the low end of these hierarchies. The ones who always end up having to clean up the messes.

This isn't some grand stand against injustice, it's being a dick.

Plus, there are countless better ways to do something like this which are still impactful and less likely to be caught, but I'll leave that as an excercise to the reader.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Oh, yeah, I wasn’t saying this guy was a hero or trying doing anything other than being a vindictive crook. I’m pointing out the wild disparity in punishment for things like “we crashed the whole economy and made off with billions” (no punishment and in fact gifts of tons more money) versus “I got mad at my employer and fucked up their computers for half a day” (ten years).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Tell me about it. Senior leadership fails to take company into profitable direction, reduncaies time. But does any exec level person is ever affected? Fuck no, they want their bonuses for "lowering costs" by firing 17 people instead