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Air Canada Sues Over Misuse Of Employee Password
Anonymous Coward writes "What do you do when you let an employee go? You kill their password and ID, right? Air Canada didn't, and they're now in court because the employee went to a competitor, wrote some cool automated scripts using the ID/password, and grabbed some company data." Interesting story, because Air Canada authorized the employee to access this website and book tickets for himself as part of his severance, but they apparently provide a little more data on that site than what is available to the public.
Are we that juvenile that we admire anything technical, regardless of its use, or in this case, misuse?
You people need to grow up.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
No. They've just outsourced the rudeness department to Montreal.
Had they simply upgraded him to a regular coach seat, there'd be no need to be giving him access to the employee-side site. This was a case of being cheap in the near term costing more in the long run...
Riight, and if a woman is raped, you blame her for wearing revealing clothes, and if someone comes into my house and steals my TV, you blame me for leaving my door unlocked.
You see, up here in Canada, the person who does the bad thing is the one we blame, not the victim. The guy did something he knew was wrong. He's at fault, not the airline. The airline would be smart to not do something like this again, because there are unethical people out there, but the fact is, it's NOT THEIR FAULT. They didn't do anything bad, and he did.
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