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:
Good example of flawed process
Good example of flawed process
Good example of flawed process
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: