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Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers
snydeq writes "According to computer forensics expert witness Keith Jones, for every logic bomb on the network or Terry Childs case that makes it into the press, there are 98 other incidents of disgruntled IT pros damaging company assets that you never hear about. And though most IT workers are too professional to take out their grievances on the systems they've worked so hard to maintain, unless management takes note of the growing discontent in the IT workplace, it may fall victim to the unspoken 'ticking time bomb' lurking within its call for IT to do more with less, InfoWorld reports. Drastically understaffed, battered by interminable hours and impossible demands, many IT folks are being pushed to the brink by management that neither trusts nor supports them."
Repeat after me: mods aren't supposed to be for censure. You disagree with pp? Tell me why in the empty spaces below.
Semi-automatic amateur armchair Australian philosopher; conjecture ready at any moment...
But really the -d(?) flag on rsync is horribly easy to misuse. I think we can blame Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras.
I did this once myself, and asked around and there were three other people who had done it. All of them said "oh well I should have known", not sure if it's a good excuse for badly designed software.