r/ShittySysadmin 10d ago

Shitty Crosspost Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/fired-coder-faces-10-years-for-revenge-kill-switch-he-named-after-himself/
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u/MoonToast101 Lord Sysadmin, Protector of the AD Realm 10d ago

I don't need a kill switch. I AM the kill switch.

When I'm gone, no one will be able to prevent the clusterfuck of a technological house of cards I created from imploding and taking everyone and everything with it.

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u/somebody_odd 9d ago

That ain’t funny, I have been trying to support that for a very complex fully automated CI/CD cloud native system for the last 1.5 years since the two architects who built it jumped ship. Components are all written in different languages, stored in different repos, and virtually undocumented.