An IT guy gets fired and promptly torches 23 Amazon web servers
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Thinking of terminating that underperforming or problematic employee? If you do, just make sure to protect yourself -- and your data.
"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
It might feel good at the time, but you'll regret it PDQ
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The former employee gets free food, shelter and the chance to make new friends for two years, while his former employer loses customers and possibly more. Lesson learned.
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The odds of a highly experienced employee deliberately sabotaging the business in revenge for being terminated are so low that doing nothing to prepare for it is actually reasonable. The company either had exceptionally bad luck or was exceptionally skilled at infuriating people enough to insure mutual destruction. Having no backups of customer data, on the other hand, is reckless and likely to lead to disaster in a number of more common scenarios.
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The article states:
the reasons why he was let go aren't important
Yeah, right. If a guy's under-performing in his first month, the most likely causes are all about bad management. So it couldn't be because is boss was an @rsehole, who treats employees like sh1t, could it? He was obviously a great boss, a superlative manager, who couldn't possibly instill hatred or the desire for revenge in his grateful employees.
The article states:
Could Voova have avoided this crisis? Yes, and the solution would have been simple: a 2FA (two-factor authentication) system.
Yeah, right. The answer to all your security problems is handing over your phone number to every idiot and web-site that says they need it "for your protection".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The article states:
the reasons why he was let go aren't important
Yeah, right. If a guy's under-performing in his first month, the most likely causes are all about bad management. So it couldn't be because is boss was an @rsehole, who treats employees like sh1t, could it? He was obviously a great boss, a superlative manager, who couldn't possibly instill hatred or the desire for revenge in his grateful employees.
The article states:
Could Voova have avoided this crisis? Yes, and the solution would have been simple: a 2FA (two-factor authentication) system.
Yeah, right. The answer to all your security problems is handing over your phone number to every idiot and web-site that says they need it "for your protection".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
2FA - something you have, and something you know. "I have Herpes", and "I know you don't want to touch me there right now".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
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Reminds me of an incident which happened more than 20 years ago. Just before he left, an employee who was fired changed the super-user password of the main Unix server of a branch office of a bigger company. The branch office lost all the data, as they had only to reformat the system. They had no backups. Lesson learnt the hard way.
