He 100% didn’t think this would result in criminal charges. A lot of people don’t think through the “how will this company with lawyers react to my petty nonsense?” when doing stuff like this.
If he was smart he would not of done this in the first place
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is it even possible to do this in a way that can’t be tracked back to you? Unless you’re a Hollywood hacker that will rig something up to literally burn down the building the server the malicious code is contained on, there will always be some fingerprints left behind in the software. And there will almost always be a relatively short list of possible suspects. Even at large companies, there won’t ever be more than a handful of people with the skills, motive, and access needed to pull something like this off. Oh, the company’s entire database suddenly and mysteriously deleted itself? I wonder who caused that, maybe the disgruntled sysadmin we just fired? There really aren’t that many suspects in situations like this. And once you’re a suspect, they can get a warrant, seize all your computers, and scour them to dig up even more evidence against you. Hell, even just documentation of ill will against your old employer would be evidence in court. You better hope you really left no trace, otherwise you will be found out very quickly.
CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
It would be easy depending on your company’s git practices. Complicated git workflows can leave room for you to slip stuff in unnoticed or misattributed. I mean, it still has to pass a review, but a lot of the devs I work with don’t review that closely. Could just assign a lazy dev to the review and increase your odds of getting it through.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
They are one of the developers. The code is full of everyones fingerprints.