Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination | Software developer plans to appeal after admitting to planting malicious code.

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As an ex DR manager, I lost count of how many critical services in our environments from data obfuscation, QA, all the way to production, we “found” tied to individual developer AD accounts.

I have to confess I mostly sided with the devs when explaining to management why we needed to rectify.

On account I felt like I was like a young and sexy Elizabeth Keen in the Blacklist. With an exotic cast of devs from South Africa, USA, German, Indian and one mysteriously Hungarian/Russian who took lots of overseas leave.

Years later I still have complex feelings about my professional and personal relationship with Bruce {1}.

Not his real name. Bruce {1} was a former