A true sysadmin day would be to send them home for the day, benefitting both them and the employees that dislike. The true workers holiday is labor day is it not? (A day most sysadmins have to work depending on their industry anyways)
"...history may help investigators eventually identify the perpetrator"
Misleading! If law enforcement saw 54 PCs with a bogus script that caused constant reboots as a threat they would have caught YoGangsta50 very fast through issuance of 2 subpoenas. 1 would have been to recover the IP address logged from the Youtube upload and the other would have been subsequent to the first in order to reveal the account information of the ISP that owns the revealed IP address. Seeing as YoGangsta50 has no real leet haxing skillz by being so blatently obvious in his poor attempt of a prank labeled crime, they probably took pity on him. I bet Edmond Locard feels real good about himself and the 54 computers he may have helped to save.
I think people are too concerned about this. Keyloggers and other stealth programs are just another form of wiretapping, constrained by the same laws. While it is good to see in these cases they are obeying said laws, there are others in our culture that dont have these constraints.
Think about one of these programs in the hands of a disgruntled spouse. Divorce cases are big business in my line of work, and quite often I have seen clients who have hired private investigators to plant key loggers and other stealthy data capture programs without their spouses knowledge. We have even gone so far as to have tested some of these noted keyloggers especially and there were a few that operate completely unbeknownst to common antivirus programs if configured correctly.
Take your wide breadth of knowledge and experience, and look beyond those specialty jobs people are talking about so much(e.g., sysadmin, db admin, pc tech). Consider something beyond that like computer forensics, or even network security or incident response, where broad knowledge and general theory can be more beneficial then specific expertise.
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A true sysadmin day would be to send them home for the day, benefitting both them and the employees that dislike. The true workers holiday is labor day is it not? (A day most sysadmins have to work depending on their industry anyways)
"...history may help investigators eventually identify the perpetrator" Misleading! If law enforcement saw 54 PCs with a bogus script that caused constant reboots as a threat they would have caught YoGangsta50 very fast through issuance of 2 subpoenas. 1 would have been to recover the IP address logged from the Youtube upload and the other would have been subsequent to the first in order to reveal the account information of the ISP that owns the revealed IP address. Seeing as YoGangsta50 has no real leet haxing skillz by being so blatently obvious in his poor attempt of a prank labeled crime, they probably took pity on him. I bet Edmond Locard feels real good about himself and the 54 computers he may have helped to save.
I think people are too concerned about this. Keyloggers and other stealth programs are just another form of wiretapping, constrained by the same laws. While it is good to see in these cases they are obeying said laws, there are others in our culture that dont have these constraints. Think about one of these programs in the hands of a disgruntled spouse. Divorce cases are big business in my line of work, and quite often I have seen clients who have hired private investigators to plant key loggers and other stealthy data capture programs without their spouses knowledge. We have even gone so far as to have tested some of these noted keyloggers especially and there were a few that operate completely unbeknownst to common antivirus programs if configured correctly.
to use linux. Don't we have enough already?
Take your wide breadth of knowledge and experience, and look beyond those specialty jobs people are talking about so much(e.g., sysadmin, db admin, pc tech). Consider something beyond that like computer forensics, or even network security or incident response, where broad knowledge and general theory can be more beneficial then specific expertise.