Posted on 07/30/2016 6:17:56 AM PDT by dynachrome
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"Former Citibank Employee Sentenced to 21 Months in Federal Prison for Causing Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer"
But did he mean to do it????
TWO TIERED AMERICA ALERT
Poor fellow.
Not born a Clinton or a member of Congress.
They was firing me...
Memo “Get ALL money out of Citi asap!”
I can’t seem to find a pic of the perp.
Seems like a slap on the wrist if the bank business was compromised that badly, but again they know that it is not possible to get blood from turnips.
Causing INTENTIONAL damage. The new standard.
The incredible thing is that someone so illiterate and so stupid was employed by Citibank in the first place.
So he wiped it, but not like, with a cloth?
Oh he was both literate and smart. But also, evil.
The secret “Office Space” dream of every IT worker... lol
(I kid, I kid...)
His language skills precedes him, no photo necessary
A. Why would such a self-destruct command even exist.
B. Why did this guy have access to run such a command.
Says something about Citibank's computer security procedures, or lack thereof.
With a name like Lennon Ray Brown you'd think it would be obvious but since it's a white collar crime and not one of violence so it sort of catches you off balance. Sort of like finding a gray hair in a blonde who's only 20 yrs old. Highly unusual.
Some nightmare bosses may be conducive to such “dreams” — however it is absolutely insane to burn bridges. The nightmare boss may end up being fired and you might want to come back some day after he has been. Not scorching the earth is a good policy.
Doesn’t Citibank do backups? Or have a redundant system?
Shutting down a single server should not shut down a properly configured system.
Even my home system can immediately sense that a computer is offline and a second PC takes over without pausing.
I host Vietnamese films for my wife on a system made with just 2 Dell $250 refurbs. If a machine goes down (or does the Windows update reboot) the other machine continues and the content delivered to the TV doesn’t even momentarily pause. I also use the same system for word processing, web surfing and other stuff.
It’s inconceivable that a bank wouldn’t do this.
I'm mildly surprised that things like this don't happen more often, given the constant round of layoffs most large corporations undergo.
Based on the syntax I’m getting a mental picture......
Sounds like “ssh admin@machine rm [somefile]” on Linux or UNIX. If he’d wanted to have been even more evil he could have blown away the tenth one too.
But the dark kind of mind necessary to carry out such evil also blinds one’s thinking. If Citibank had actually wronged him, his best move would have been to give it to God, get another job, and just quit. God, when trusted by the wronged, has a way of orchestrating what in other worldviews is sometimes called “karma.” Because the one doing the wrong has also brought about his own blindness too.
I had a boss a few years ago who was a jerk and I left the company. For the next three years this boss had to deal with another difficult and mercurial man in another division of the company — one that I was beginning to befriend and I might have made quite a difference to this boss in dealing successfully with. With me out of the picture... the jerk reaped the consequences and nothing evil or illegal was done by me.
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