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I don't want to know about what he did unless there's some information on why he did it also. Was he pushed over the edge after years of mistreatment? Or was he

by sqldba 10y ago

I don't want to know about what he did unless there's some information on why he did it also. Was he pushed over the edge after years of mistreatment? Or was he mentally unstable and it was petty revenge? Most of us have the keys to the kingdom in one way or another and while I (and others) could never do this it doesn't mean I don't have sympathy for someone who does - for some justifiable reason. I can't imagine any that are justifiable... but I can ask. I found the other linked articles about, "The Malicious Insider", a bit fucked in the head. Unapproved hardware! Email misuse! Unapproved workaround! Unapproved software! Are you fucking kidding me? That's a pretty far cry from this guy.

semi-extrinsic 10y ago
From the SMS quoted in TFA, seems like he at least thought he and his colleagues were being continually mistreated by upper management: “They was firing me. I just beat them to it. Nothing personal, the upper management need to see what they guys on the floor is capable of doing when they keep getting mistreated. I took one for the team.” “Sorry if I made my peers look bad, but sometimes it take something like what I did to wake the upper management up.”
- jameskegel 10y ago
  This may sound petty, but it is sincere nonetheless; I'm curious how someone with his command of the English language rose to such a position of power to be able to cause this much damage.
  - mfoy_ 10y ago
    I had an IT internship where my manager handed me a master key to the building and root logins for quite a few boxes. I also had the admin credentials to every user computer in the building. Literally the "keys to the kingdom". Sometimes the default level of trust is just really high...
    - tracker1 10y ago
      It really depends on the company (size, number of staff) and the position itself. I've been in similar situations... I've also worked in smaller orgs that operated tighter operations than fortune 500 companies.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    > This may sound petty, but it is sincere nonetheless; I'm curious how someone with his command of the English language rose to such a position of power to be able to cause this much damage. Not having a great command of the English language doesn't seem to be a huge barrier to technical roles that are fairly insulated from the business side of things in enterprise environments, IMO.
  - st3v3r 10y ago
    It's an SMS, not a formal email to a client.

by sqldba 10y ago

semi-extrinsic 10y ago

From the SMS quoted in TFA, seems like he at least thought he and his colleagues were being continually mistreated by upper management: “They was firing me. I just beat them to it. Nothing personal, the upper management need to see what they guys on the floor is capable of doing when they keep getting mistreated. I took one for the team.” “Sorry if I made my peers look bad, but sometimes it take something like what I did to wake the upper management up.”

jameskegel 10y ago
This may sound petty, but it is sincere nonetheless; I'm curious how someone with his command of the English language rose to such a position of power to be able to cause this much damage.
- mfoy_ 10y ago
  I had an IT internship where my manager handed me a master key to the building and root logins for quite a few boxes. I also had the admin credentials to every user computer in the building. Literally the "keys to the kingdom". Sometimes the default level of trust is just really high...
  - tracker1 10y ago
    It really depends on the company (size, number of staff) and the position itself. I've been in similar situations... I've also worked in smaller orgs that operated tighter operations than fortune 500 companies.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > This may sound petty, but it is sincere nonetheless; I'm curious how someone with his command of the English language rose to such a position of power to be able to cause this much damage. Not having a great command of the English language doesn't seem to be a huge barrier to technical roles that are fairly insulated from the business side of things in enterprise environments, IMO.
- st3v3r 10y ago
  It's an SMS, not a formal email to a client.