Reply to: Anyone ever sabotaged a clients system?

[Cyberman]

A contractor where I worked years ago put a deliberate bug into software in order to try to get a renewal when he knew that his time was up. He was in collusion with his girlfriend in the company who was responsible for checking that the data was ok. She would come into the dept every day complaining about this bug, putting pressure on the IT manager. The contractor was so arrogant that he did not think that a permie would spot his handiwork, but one of us surely did.

[BrilloPad]

No been tempted. Always got on well with clients.

At opne place I saw someone boasted he had put a back door in! Nothing malicious but enabled him to have a hunt round. No-one shopped him.

But someone else did something similar. I shopped him.....

[Peoplesoft bloke]

There's nothing wrong with being a grumpy old dinosaur, I'll have you know...

Indeed not.

[Sysman]

WHS

Never done it, never would.

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

Agreed. Simply working your notice out and leaving is a better option.

[Doggy Styles]

No. On each occasion it was someone else.

[DaveB]

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

Never stay in one job long enough for your mistakes to catch up with you!

[weemster]

Apart from some the stuff I write (not on purpose I quickly add) nope !

[TimberWolf]

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

[Pogle]

Nah, its not my style.

[PM-Junkie]

I've fantasised about it but no.

don't change the subject

[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).

[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.

[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.

[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.

[TimberWolf]

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