Yeah, and in the time that the deal was underway if they started sabotaging things they will be getting sued and pursued. Hope it was worth it. And Musk’s boys -will- be able to figure it out.
This may still be a criminal case in the making. That’s what I’m interested in.
True if they were careless. Original authors with longtime access would leave no traces unless they just weren’t very good programmers. But as they say in the IT world, nothing more dangerous or sneaky than a programmer that considers themselves irreplaceable. They tend to defend that “they can’t replace me” very tightly.