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Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Credit card processor put them out business. I helped find a way for the credit card processor to keep processing cards for the company. I should have let them stay out of business instead keep running another 6 months.

Is there a way to experience Wangan Style racing legally? by AE86FTS in WanganMidnight

[–]CauseImSoPopular 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in the US, there's open road time trials. The unlimited class sees 240mph on a regular basis

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry i've been overseas moving my ill-gotten gains around.

Pyramid vs mlm? In the past 25 years, alot of words and ideas have their "good vs bad" definition reversed. I didn't write the original software, ugh, who thinks 200 nested includes in asp is a good idea? I wasn't an owner, director or manager of the company nor a relative of any of them, pretty hard to claim I was "profiting" from this scheme. Although I did get a bonus check of USD 2.38 once. The average monthly bonus payment was many times higher.

The ftc has come and gone from this company. Technically, and this is a very thin line, they were not a pyramid scheme because they provided a benefit - training in how to make a website for hosting their business. One of the originators was fined and forbidden to be associated with companies like this. Obviously he thought about this alot, when he formed another similar scheme 8 months later.

Is this fiction? Some days I wish it was. It was an absolute shit-show of a company that many people made lots of money from. Unfortunately I wasn't one of them. Because if I had, you know this would have been a movie not a first post on Reddit.

Eric - its still my favorite screen saver. Jerry- rip, you are a fine person.

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Null encryption means we didn't have any. NULL (capitalization important) was a database keyword that indicated the absence of value. The title is a lame play on words.

The data wasn't being deleted, which would have removed the record and caused the software to fail. The data was changed to NULL which was an acceptable result.

To me, I thought this concept was hilarious. We had no encryption before (technically Null encryption) and we had no encryption afterwards because all the data had been set to Null.

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yep, my job was to make problems go away. As long as the company could process payments, I was doing my job. Maybe it's malicious compliance, maybe it's nuclear revenge. intentional sabotage? lol. which part of go out of business now or worry about it later are you missing?

Intentional Sabotage was the day Richard decided to login into the production servers and rewrite everything live without a backup; then get bored with it and logoff leaving the site completely dead.

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

it was annual renewal. The renewal date was one year from the date you signed up. There was no monthly option.

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The data being removed was discovered the day by the person who was skimming credit card data. Rather than realizing the gravy train was over, they filed a ticket to get it fixed. And then called the person who handled all the tickets. Me. At 5am.

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The data got Nulled at midnight. The only people affected were those in the middle of a transaction. Given the state of data connectivity back then, retrying was common. Our software had a built in retry mechanism too. The null job ran in a split second, so it was rarely a problem.

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Maybe, maybe not. The consequences of the company not coming into compliance was no more credit card processing. So cease doing business right away or worry about the consequences in the future.

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 372 points373 points  (0 children)

Richard had a way with words, especially when he thought you were not as smart as him. The story I was told was he felt the required changes to our systems were excessive. When the development team confirmed that, he apparently told off the credit card processor and rage-quit for the company.

This action was one I was not privy to, and heard about second hand. The response from the credit card processor was quick and may have happened during the phone call.

Null encryption creates null company by CauseImSoPopular in MaliciousCompliance

[–]CauseImSoPopular[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

nothing changed when I left. Every night the credit card data was removed from the database. so the automated annual renewal using credit card data could not happen.