The reality is people get laid off or fired for all sorts of reasons. This is the IT equivalent of setting fire to the equipment that you used to build something and the production prototype and walking out the door thinking you can just just leave and get away with it.
In this guy’s fantasy he would be doing 10 to 20 years of prison time if he gets caught and charged with both state and federal crimes. And let’s be real, he’ll definitely get caught.
I really hope this kind of stand off becomes normalized. We can all lose.
You seem like the only person in this thread who seems to be aware of the world around them
I wonder how many people here actually do any sort of hiring or firing. Companies don’t check fuck all and if you’re in a position where they do, releasing this kind of information will quickly become their problem not yours.
How do you test that it actually works?
Create a file named “test” then confirm you can push it to public, rename the test string in your script to .env and then realise you didn’t account for special characters in strings! SHIT!
I got laid off almost 2 years ago. I now work for the same company again working fewer hours at much higher pay. Layoffs aren’t necessarily the end, and they can very much be the start of renegotiating your position
Yea, this is the reason I held my tongue when the company CEO who laid me off last year (Who I worked directly under) posted something about investing in the people who further their goals. Because I had a bunch of very snarky I could have clapped back with, but I decided to not burn the bridge
This guy will never be pro union.
Posting pragmatic advice of “don’t burn bridges” on a post advocating for committing career-ending crimes against your former employer is somehow anti-union? Da fuq?
It’s so wild to see all the fucking hall monitors in here wagging their fingers.
You all deserve whatever you get.
I’m just concerned about their poor opsec
Agreed, if this is true you should not be posting about it at all no matter where it is. It’s best to just keep it quiet because the company at this point can probably get law enforcement involved if they ID the person. The only time a company should know something is going on in this situation your lawyer should already be fully involved.
So how did you test it?
Presses button
Syntax error on line 1Shit…
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Did this once to a company that treated me disrespectful. In the 90s when I still worked. To not go into any detail: Set a timer for 7 months after I was gone. Virus started infecting everything slowly so that even the backups were useless. I knew their schedule, it was not optimal and not very secure. Well, another few months later, company was sold cheap. Employees taken over and all happy now.
You made this shit up.
He made it look like a Y2K bug 🤓
You’re free to have this opinion. But even if I would be dumb enough to prove it, I wouldn’t know why I should 😁
You 100% made that shit up. Good joke though.
beautiful. i light up my nearest warehouse to the author
“See you just press this button right here and oh shitshitshITSHIT”
I know it’s a meme but I’d notify the lawyer before coding that, they’ll laugh themselves silly. Electronic vandalism is still vandalism only the damages are higher.
If I damage $25k worth of stuff that’s my problem
If I damage $25 million worth of code that’s my former employer’s problem
Until a judge rules that you’ll be paying that back over the rest of your life so every month a large court-orderd chunk of your paycheck will leave your account.
You missed my point entirely…
It will still be made your problem by the judge even if your employer doesn’t recover that money will still end up being paid to the majority shareholders.
That is unless you were planning to live without income or decide not to continue living.
What precisely about your point did I miss?
You generally can’t pursue someone for debt after a bankruptcy declaration, depending on the country. So if you’re 25M in debt, you go bankrupt and they can’t chase you for any more. You lose all your current assets, but at least you can rebuild a life. Still, rough path to choose.
That’s not how judicial fines work, they know most people don’t have that amount in the bank so there’s zero point asking for the lump sum. Their aim is to disincentivise future “vandals” by making an example out of the first one. You won’t be able to escape the payments which will be unavoidable due to bankruptcy because a portion of your wages will be garnished so that you’ll have just enough to survive but the rest you’ll be paying back for the rest of your life.
Look what’s happening to that cunt Alex Jones, he can’t escape the settlement to the Sandy Hook families by bankruptcy so he’s doing everything he can to hide his income and assets and appeal the judgement.
Mmmm yes but if you detonate a truck bomb you will die as well 😏🤔 you might destroy your employer but you will destroy yourself in the process as well! ☝️🤓 Which would be very bad for you! And if you survived the judge would surely throw the book at you 😏
So you’re suicidal?
Look I’m all for fucking over the corpo bastards but if you’re planning on sacrificing yourself because you truly think an ideal or cause is worth more than your life you’d be better off destroying the backups, blowing up the offices, and Luigi-ing the entire board of directors.
OR find some other way to fuck them over that doesn’t sacrifice your own life.
Go touch grass
But if AI executes it…
If AI is so smart (it’s not) it can take your job, then it should clearly recognize what is clearly meant as a joke…
Well that’s one way to never get another job again.
If you’re that good, you can contract yourself out.
The future is self-employment and unions.
Of the two I’ll pick wandering into the forest and dying of exposure.
Unions are definitively better than wandering into the forest and dying of exposure.
They still don’t beat just wandering into the forest no risk of dying tho. Have you seen 'em sequoias?
That’s quitter talk, I believe in your ability to become a mystic mountain/forest/cave person that people hear rumors about when hiking the trails during a full moon.
Be the eldritch horror you want to see in the world.
Then I’m a quitter.
Fuck everyone.
You can quit if you want to
You can leave your friends behind.
If you rage quit, be sure to make a splash!
wait i always thought it was “this cannon is gonna be loaded when i go off”. i’m gonna keep using mine.
one fuck at a time dude
That’s my plan, when the time comes i become the mountain man. I’m not giving up on life just this life.
And who is going to know? If you are stupid enough to release the code to your private account, then you might have difficulties to find a new job. Other than that, except when you were in a niche, no one will ever know it was you and the company is not allowed to tell others.
Pretty sure before hiring they can check for criminal records.
Where Iive, you have to provide those voluntarily and it is only allowed to ask for it, when you work with sensitive data or in sensitive environments.
no one will ever know it was you and the company is not allowed to tell others.
That’s absolutely not true. The generally accepted policy is to only confirm dates of employment, conduct, and if they would rehire. The can share anything that isn’t a lie.
Additionally, if you commit sabotage you can have charges pressed against you. Serious ones with possible prison time. That would show up with even a rudimentary record search.
I guess it depends on where you live. I could imagine that in the US, you as an individual get way less protection than corporations. Where I live, spreading around that you are a criminal, would be itself a criminal offense, unless you are a person of public interest.
Criminal records have to be provided voluntarily and may not be asked for, if not strictly necessary.
https://cybernews.com/security/fired-contractors-delete-government-databases/
You have zero clue what you’re talking about.
This is criminal behaviour and not only will it prevent future employment it will almost certainly result in jail time.
Well, it depends on where you live I guess, not everything happening in the US is automatically true for the rest of the world. In the US, you as an individual are of no value and your rights get kicked in the balls constantly.
I am not in the US and I can tell you now, this would land you in jail and go on your record in virtually any developed country.
This is a dumb and illegal tantrum by a fool.
I’ve got to laugh at someone from auzzie.zone needing to tell someone they’re not in the US.
There really are some spectacular morons on here.
Sure buddy, those poor corporations need to be protected even more =)
If you didn’t guess I work in cyber security. I’ve gathered the evidence that sends idiots like these to jail.
Go ahead and whinge all you want. Their actions are illegal.
A true hero, thank you so much for your service.
In that industry…
Software as a career is dying anyway and the welding union I’m going to apprentice won’t understand, much less care about any of this
Shit they would probably find it funny if you dumb it down for them.
In many cases, you pretty much didn’t exist before you stepped through the doors at your new company. People in all departments are too overloaded with work to take their time properly vetting every person joining the circus
Most companies use background check services nowadays. Sure, you could try to just invent a new persona, but HR will flag you when your name, SSN, DOB, etc come back as bogus.
There are even background check companies that specialize in corporate background checks. They’ll try to estimate or find things like how much you made at your previous/current job, so the company you’re applying for knows what they can offer you without it seeming like a lowball. If a company can spend $100 on a background check and save $10k per year on an employee salary, that’s an easy financial decision for the company.
“most” is the keyword here.
Killing company honorable though.
It’s the suicide bomber method
You could probably make it look like an accident. “I guess the LLM was having trouble reaching my account after I was deleted, so it posted everything to pastebin so I could see it there”
Still risky and a funnier fantasy than good idea.
That’s actually somewhat plausible, I saw a vid earlier today from some one talking about how their work coding AI agent noticed that their NPM was set to only update package dependencies 7 days after release because ya know best security practices and all that
It “helpfully” set it to 0 because they would miss top features otherwise LMAO
The front end industry is pathologically obsessed with newness. So much unproductive churn.
“This project is DEAD! It hasn’t had a major release in THREE MONTHS!”
“This is the same API this framework had TWO YEARS AGO!”Today, I tried to prevent Claude from reading my .env files. This was pretty easy and worked, but now Claude was just writing php snippets to get config values set by this .env.
(I have to use ai for work, personally I never use it)
I’m only just learning, but my approach is to essentially built a bunch of functions around every prompt. I just too many stories of AI deleting everything to trust it to run without checks upon checks upon checks.
I hate AI. But this should realistically be called a “arrest me” button.
Yes, you’re correct, fighting back often requires personal sacrifices.
big companies leeching off open source and getting their products leaked after a single phishing mail never stops being entertaining
Oops, silly me, getting tricked by phishing emails after hearing we were all being laid off. Teehee
i mean, that’s legitimately why they escort you out immediately after telling you you’re fired. most people can be responsible but there’s always that one shitass
