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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] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Should have just run over his boss in his car in the parking lot instead. Would have only got community service

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

As someone else pointed out just feigning incompetence would've worked too. Just connect to his account for idk 'logging', throw an error if it doesn't exist (who would've tested for that right) and crash the application that way and everyone would've shaken their head and said "good thing we laid him off" instead of going after him legally