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I never understand these types that are smart enough to crash an entire company, but too stupid to make it look like someone else did it.
by jarsin 2y ago
I never understand these types that are smart enough to crash an entire company, but too stupid to make it look like someone else did it.
- progbits 2y agoCould be the case here :) "You only hear about the ones that get caught"
- jarsin 2y agoHe literally wrote a script that locked out everyone on the network the second they disabled his employee account in active directory. He even named the variable Is[DH]EnabledInAD where [DH] is his initials.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- toast0 2y agoWell the script is there, but maybe someone else put it there, because they were leaving/being forced out and they wanted to sabotage the company and make it look bad for DH (Article says DL). No need to sabotage the company immediately, revenge is a dish best served cold.
- droopyEyelids 2y agoIt could even have been another employee putting the idea into his head and encouraging him.
- theamk 2y agoOther employee, reddit story, AI chatbot, crime show... it does not matter who put the idea in the head, all that matters is who did the deed.
- droopyEyelids 2y agoMatters to whom
- theamk 2y agoUnlikely, given that he confessed and that in other attack, he damaged the machine only he had access to. I mean, it is theoretically possible there were two disgruntled employees, and second one pinned his crimes to the first one, but I think this is pretty unlikely, given the observeed lack of common sense.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoThere have always been people like this, that are simply brainsick and petty, but it's something that is probably being exacerbated by the extreme animosity between the people that run companies, and the people that work on the front lines. I'm not naive enough to think there was a "golden age," when everyone was happy-dappy, but I think it's much worse, now, than it has ever been. I mean, in order to do big, complicated things, you need teams, and teams need to work together. That means much more than just the "hard" skills of individual intelligence, creativity, and discipline. It's also all the "soft" skills, that help the team to retain cohesion, like mutual respect, loyalty, integrity, etc. The problem is that the example needs to start from the top, and there hasn't been much of a good example, up there, recently. It's not difficult to imagine people feeling justified in doing bad things to their team, like deliberately writing shoddy code, taking credit for colleagues' work, bailing out, before their bugs come to the surface, or throwing their teammates under the bus. I always tried to foster a team that had mutual respect, and could focus on common goals, even when everyone had their own motivations and priorities. In my case, it worked, but I know that I was lucky.
- ElFitz 2y ago> but I think it's much worse, now, than it has ever been. At some point, some US employers would hire armed private security companies like Pinkerton to break strikes, often leading to multiple deaths. In other countries, the army would be sent to break prolonged strikes by shooting at strikers. In other words, it has been way worse.
- pr0zac 2y ago> In other countries, the army would be sent to break prolonged strikes by shooting at strikers. This happened in West Virginia as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
- behringer 2y agoWas it worse though? Before they made it obvious. Now it's insidious. They still destroy lives, just the same.
- smitty1e 2y agoThere are so many little bits of logging going on with modern systems that the idea of totally cleaning up all evidence seems far-fetched. Not that one couldn't make it very hard to tell, but even circumstantial evidence in the hands of a good prosecutor can deliver a conviction.
- jmugan 2y agoI thought you were going to say "smart enough to crash an entire company, but too stupid to realize that their intelligence should be put to other uses."
- ranger_danger 2y agoI would think making it look like something that _wasn't_ caused by a human would be even smarter.
- throwaway3572 2y agoInteresting. How would that work? Asking for a friend. :)
- dietr1ch 2y agoA problem is that they can hire smart people to run the investigation, so the target on who to fool moves abruptly.
- cozzyd 2y agoMust have messed up a decimal or some other mundane detail
- jjfjjjjjjjfjjf 2y ago[flagged]
- naruhodo 2y agoMy reaction too. It reminds me of the Simpsons' "Buttzilla" bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPmeLibaVwg&t=112s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPmeLibaVwg&t=112s
- ttyprintk 2y agoMost of the stories in this thread end as quietly as possible.