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Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 day ago by WetBeardHairs to c/technology
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[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Still probably not. The code also deleted files, deleted accounts, and created infinite loops which took down large chunks of the network and infrastructure.

You could take your code, but you can't take down the company.

[–] db2 4 points 17 hours ago

Yeah he's screwed then.