Anyone ever sabotaged a clients system?

[Mich the Tester]

Observation has taught me that clientcos that wind staff up enough that they would consider it are quite capable of screwing things up big time on their own as part of their normal operations and need no assistance from aggrieved staff to bring it about.

WHS

Never done it, never would.

The tulip clients buy from their Indian CMM Level 5 Plenty Cheapness suppliers doesn't need sabotaging anyway.

[Menelaus]

Mich makes a good point, as do others above.

It takes a real leap of faith and imagination (not to mention a streak of being unhinged) to move from fantasising about how one would do it to actually "doing the deed". The days of attacking a big box in the back of a computer room somewhere with an axe are gone.

Frankly, having seen some client architectures and the holes therein, clients are far more capable of cocking up than I would be.

[TimberWolf]

Bomb Cornwall: http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/Porthcurno/

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Seems to me you Luddite techies with your opposition to change would take a leaf out of these guys book:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.htm

Never understood why Luddite has become a term of abuse. Even the most cursory research indicates that these were people previously able to make a living by dint of a lifetime devotion to a given trade who faced the real and immediate prospect of destitution and starvation. Times were a bit different then - they were not just a few grumpy old dinosaurs.

[Coalman]

Never understood why Luddite has become a term of abuse. Even the most cursory research indicates that these were people previously able to make a living by dint of a lifetime devotion to a given trade who faced the real and immediate prospect of destitution and starvation. Times were a bit different then - they were not just a few grumpy old dinosaurs.

Media and govenment spin. Nothing has changed in 200 years, just the names.

[KentPhilip]

Never understood why Luddite has become a term of abuse. Even the most cursory research indicates that these were people previously able to make a living by dint of a lifetime devotion to a given trade who faced the real and immediate prospect of destitution and starvation. Times were a bit different then - they were not just a few grumpy old dinosaurs.

It is a term of abuse because luddites sought to destroy equipment that vastly improved productivity within factories. As a result of this prices for products rose, making many people effectively poorer.

[Platypus]

Years ago as a permie I wrote some code (a daemon) which I later realised had a "root access" loophole in it. I created a "how to" document and tested the loophole. It worked

But I never released the document or told another living soul.
(I assume you lot are all sockpuppets so you don't count anyway).

[PM-Junkie]

I've fantasised about it but no.

don't change the subject

[Pogle]

Nah, its not my style.

[TimberWolf]

It is sometimes a concern that when I leave things will turn to tulip in my absence. Does that count?