I've just read about an Unix engineer from Fannie Mae being sued for trying to deploy a time-bomb script on their servers after being fired. The guy was able to access the servers after being fired, so it's a very good example of a flawed termination process. An interesting thing here is that he was a contractor, so what probably happened (and I'm just expeculating here, based on what I've seen before) was that they had a process for doing that for employees but not for contractors. Here is a strong evidence for that:
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Good example of flawed process
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I've just read about an Unix engineer from Fannie Mae being sued for trying to deploy a time-bomb script on their servers after being fired. The guy was able to access the servers after being fired, so it's a very good example of a flawed termination process. An interesting thing here is that he was a contractor, so what probably happened (and I'm just expeculating here, based on what I've seen before) was that they had a process for doing that for employees but not for contractors. Here is a strong evidence for that: