Are Background Checks Necessary For IT Workers?

4foot10 writes "UBS PaineWebber learned a hard lesson after hiring an IT systems admin without conducting a background check. Now its ex-employee is slated to be sentenced for launching a 'logic bomb' in UBS' computer systems that crashed 2,000 of the company's servers and left 17,000 brokers unable to make trades."

Comments

The communists won after all

[mrraven]

Yes everyone should get a background check right from gas station clerk to CIO, and everyone should have to pee in a bottle, and submit to intrusive personal "psychological profile" questions, because the health of the collective is more important than individual rights, right? This is EXACTLY thee mindset of communism, and don't even try to tell me that you have a choice to work for a firm or not, if they all require background checks, peeing in a bottle, intrusive psychological tests, etc, then we have defacto collectivism.

R.I.P. freedom I miss you already.