vacuumflower

@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yeah, by the way - if you do something harmful at work and are hold responsible for it legally, it’s weird because when you do something clearly beneficial at work the company holds all the responsibility for that, and you hold your paycheck independently of the outcomes of your work.

  So how the hell is this even treated as any kind of crime, let alone worth 4 years, is unclear for me. Some people seem to be forgetting that where peaceful protest is punished, violent protest finds a way.

  If an intern damages a production database, they (or whoever else) are not (legally) held responsible, despite someone there definitely making a few mistakes leading to loss of profit. But it’s not even considered.

  In this case it’s not a mistake, but does it matter? Unless they violated some security process inside the organization, thus illegally gaining access wherever, the story means that they used “maliciously” the access they were given.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the 1970s this, first, would be an equivalent of what another guy wrote, changing a lock combination and not telling people, a minor mischief, and second, he’d have a union protecting him.

  This is clearly disproportional.

  A bomb kills\maims people and harms equipment, this is very clearly not a bomb.

  In the 1970s this would be a scandal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’ve done plenty of that in my, ahem, practice. And honestly if I had a choice to concentrate and not do that, even if that meant losing my “dead man’s triggers”, then so be it. Extinguishing a perpetual dumpster fire as part of your job is not good. Also someone might be given that to fix after you leave, I’ve been in that role too.