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Developer sabotaged ex-employer IT systems with kill switch • The Register
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this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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Ok kids, what did we learn here? Use obfuscation in your kill switches, and place it by leaving vulnerabilities that are “accidental”.
Secondary lesson: don’t web surf on corporate laptops
Or, you know, don't do it in the first place.
I wouldn’t. But there are so many employers, some actually doing evil things, and in some countries sabotaging things while your department is mass fired is all the rage.
So, if one is going to do it, do it well