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When Sysadmins Go Bad

Posted by michael on from the most-of-them-already-are-of-course dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here is a story about what can happen when you think you're being oh so clever. This sysadmin planted so-called logic bombs on the systems he was responsible for and then quit. He also tried to game the stock market, buying put options on his former company, hoping to cash in when the disaster he engineered struck. Who can companies trust if they're afraid that this kind of thing can happen? How can they prevent it?"

6 of 487 comments (clear)

  1. Re:When /. Sysadmins Go Bad? by kraf · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm quite frankly surprised that /. works at all most of the time considering the illiterate childish posers who run it.

  2. Easy. Bond the SysAdmins... by rindeee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...and let them watch a short video on what rights they won't have if they have their bond is "called in" that includes footage of their ride home to Jersey from L.A. in the trunk of a car while the Bail/Bond agents hit every pothole in sight all while bleeding from every orifice(sp?). ER

  3. Re:What nonsense. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nice spelling, jackass...

  4. Re:Quis custiodet ipsos custiodes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Once again, nice spelling, jackass...

    PRESIDENT

  5. Re:Quis custiodet ipsos custiodes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    cheers monkey boy. How do you remember so how to spell so many words correctly, don't you have a propper job? Seriously I'd like to know.

  6. Re:Sheesh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And yet again, nice spelling, jackass...

    PRETTY