Probably shouldn’t have put his name on it, mind.
Case file: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/US-v-Lu-2021.pdf
Should have just run over his boss in his car in the parking lot instead. Would have only got community service
As someone else pointed out just feigning incompetence would’ve worked too. Just connect to his account for idk ‘logging’, throw an error if it doesn’t exist (who would’ve tested for that right) and crash the application that way and everyone would’ve shaken their head and said “good thing we laid him off” instead of going after him legally
Organize to steal the people’s money through fraudulent charges, and give it to rich people: All is well
As one of the people, organize to fuck up the rich people’s operation, even if you’re not even stealing their money or anything: Panik
::tummy grumbles::
The people you hurt by doing stuff like this is almost never the rich people at the top. It’s the former co-workers and others at the low end of these hierarchies. The ones who always end up having to clean up the messes.
This isn’t some grand stand against injustice, it’s being a dick.
Plus, there are countless better ways to do something like this which are still impactful and less likely to be caught, but I’ll leave that as an excercise to the reader.
Oh, yeah, I wasn’t saying this guy was a hero or trying doing anything other than being a vindictive crook. I’m pointing out the wild disparity in punishment for things like “we crashed the whole economy and made off with billions” (no punishment and in fact gifts of tons more money) versus “I got mad at my employer and fucked up their computers for half a day” (ten years).
Tell me about it. Senior leadership fails to take company into profitable direction, reduncaies time. But does any exec level person is ever affected? Fuck no, they want their bonuses for “lowering costs” by firing 17 people instead
Finally, on October 7, 2019, Lu “admitted to investigators that he created the code described.”
[…] said Lu’s attorney, Ian Friedman, adding that they intended to appeal. “Davis and his supporters believe in his innocence and this matter will be reviewed at the appellate level.”
Never admit culpability. There’s always the chance some unknown nation-state-level hacker or other disgruntled employee is doing active sabotage and using the name and credentials of a recently laid off employee to do it. That’s what an intelligent hacker would do, not foolishly leave their own name and credentials attached all over the incriminating data.
Cops always want confessions because proving a crime happened is much harder. Especially with highly tamperable computers which are so difficult to explain to juries.
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