repost from the hyprland discord, where i first found this meme
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
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Iirc there was some danish bank IT guy who stole every unit of currency smaller than 10^-4 in his banks transactions. Pretty neat until he got caught
How the fuck did he do that, and how did they find that?
It's a story I heard from my dad a few years ago, tried looking it up now, but.. well this is the best I found:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-salami-technique/
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/14925/has-a-programmer-ever-embezzled-money-by-shaving-fractions-of-a-cent-from-many-b