Get Fired. Delete Colleague's Account. Go To Jail.

SierraPete writes "CNet reports that Thomas Millot, a former systems analyst for a major pharmaceutical company, has lost his appeal on a computer intrusion charge. Mr. Millot was convicted of unlawfully entering the system that he used to work on and deleting a colleague's account after his job was outsourced. Mr. Millot's attorneys argued that his actions did not amount to $5K in damage--the threshold for the crime he was convicted of. The court disagreed, saying that IBM had done over $20K in work to undo his handiwork." Update: 01/14 19:55 GMT by J : Typo corrected; turns out the word "not" is important...

Eh ?

[Delifisek]

20k for undeleting account?

Pheww...

Now I understood why IBM four times bigger than Microsoft....

Re:IBM ineptitude

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod parent up. IBM Global Services always liked to be paid in large gold bricks.

Re:IBM ineptitude

[ThaFooz]

Wait... so Aventis Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals outsources its IT security to IBM, who in turn charges Aventis $20,350 to reach the conclusion that their recent security breach was caused by a flaw in IBMs security policy: not removing clearance from disgruntled ex-employees who are disgruntled soley because they are being replaced by IBM? That's FUNNY.

Re:If IBM charged 20K . . . .

[AchilleTalon]

Seems you forgot to add "project management" charges to the bill. I guess there were at least three project managers on this one and all the related staff to edit meeting minutes, etc.

Re:Oh Please... - THE CRON JOB

[germansausage]

Of course the cron job on the server that ran 10 days later and found that you hadn't touched a certain file in a week deleted your managers account. It wasn't you.

Re:Go to jail already.

[Kymermosst]

Funny. His ID is lower than yours =-)

Not by much... but still

His ID: 714956
My ID: 33885

And they say the public education system is failing us.

As an aside, I was here when slashdot started registration. I stayed an AC for a while on some stupid principle. And then I decided I really wanted good karma. Looking back, I should have registered immediately... I could have sold it on eBay.

Re:Go to jail already.

[thesandtiger]

I will probably be modded to troll for saying this,

I will probably be modded off-topic for saying this, but I've noticed that if one starts a comment saying "I'll probably get dinged on karma for this, but darn it, it needs to be said!" they will tend to be modified as insightful or interesting or informative, even when they are just stating the obvious.

I'm not saying that your post wasn't insightful/informative/interesting, just that because you began by saying you'll be modded a troll you boosted the probability of a +5 rating substantially.

Watch -

I'll probably be modded off-topic for this, but darn it, it needs to be said: Ice is cold. Not as cold as dry ice, but still - cold enough that it's darned uncomfortable to have to have it on your skin.

[sits back, lets the karma roll in and out - like the tides]

Re:IBM ineptitude

[Black Perl]

yes, you do have to spell things out for some people. please spell out for me what the difference between 0 and 2?

t w o

Re:IBM ineptitude

[schon]

I asked about why they would sign a contract they couldn't fulfill. He said it happens all the time and is standard operating procedure.

You say this like it's something unusual. If so, I doubt you have much experience with company with an employee base of >1.

Here's a story that might help you understand a little better:

A salesman and a technician wenet bear hunting. They hiked up into the mountains, to get to a remote cabin. When they got there, the salesman said "OK, you unpack, and I'll go find us something to hunt," and left before the technician could object.

About 10 minutes later, the technician heard the salesman screaming from outside. He went out, and across the field, he saw the salesman running for his life, being chased by the largest, angriest bear the technician had ever seen in his life.

Stunned, the technician could only stare as the salesman ran right up to the cabin, the bear inches behind him. Just as he reached the cabin door, the salesman bolted to the side, and the bear having too much momentum, barreled straight into the cabin. The salesman quickly closed the door, and looked to the technician with a big smile on his face.

The technician could hear the bear destroying the inside of the cabin, and as he turned to the salesman, the salesman said "OK, you finish up with this one, and I'll go get us some more."
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A salesman I worked with once told me the "secret" of sales: "Never confuse selling with supplying." I've never met a salesman who feels differently.

Firewall (Movie)

[nneonneo]

Has anyone seen the movie "Firewall" and see a vague resemblance? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408345/ [imdb.com]
So a security specialist has to rob his bank, to pay back a ransom.
So a sysadmin decideds to do some damage to his old company, to take revenge on the IT department.
Sounds like Hollywood material to me!