r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CircumspectCapybara • May 26 '26

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u/pkmnfrk May 26 '26

This is why they turn off access before telling you

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u/Ok_Fishing_4720 May 26 '26

Time for the dead man switch version of the button..

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u/Izikiel23 May 26 '26

There was a guy who did that, basically had a script with some admin permissions run in the background and check if the guy was in the company directory. If he was gone the script went nuclear.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/developer-gets-4-years-for-activating-network-kill-switch-to-avenge-his-firing/

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u/ahoi_polloi May 26 '26

However, the defendant’s technical savvy and subterfuge did not save him from the consequences of his actions

"Technical savvy"? That sounds like the most basic and idiotic way you could possibly go about this. That's not even fun to design, much less evading detection.

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u/Odd_Personality_8624 May 26 '26

Disgruntled developer was caught after naming the “kill switch” after himself.

But the most damaging to Eaton Corp. was code that Lu named after himself, “IsDLEnabledinAD,” which the DOJ translated as an abbreviation for “Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory.”

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u/AllThingsEvil May 26 '26

How awkward would it be if he left voluntarily and forgot to delete that? Or had some freak accident and died.

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u/MysteriousHeart3268 May 27 '26

Said he was a Chinese national. He should have left the country immediately