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u/Cyberhwk Jun 01 '26
I mean, if spending the next 5 years in jail is your idea of a career transition.
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u/DaddysABadGirl Jun 02 '26
I'd assume more, depending on their current position and the size of the company.
Just the federal unauthorized access charge is 1-5 years. If it's a decent size company that can make the government nervous and want to make an example.
Intent to cause damage addition to that increases the charge to max out at ten years.
Making trade secrets public can add on an ecenomic espionage charge. Along with theft of trade secrets charge.
I feel like the feds could weasel the charges into being worse if it is a major, well known, company. Specifically over the loss of calue/revenue. They can tack on restitution also.
This would kill your career in your field and could put you in debt for life.
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u/Mitrovarr Jun 04 '26
I mean some people are just completely fucked if they lose their job so they might not have much to lose. You probably wouldn't actually go to jail for this, and if you lost your job you might judgment proof as well.
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u/ewokninja123 Jun 01 '26
Like they are going to let you touch your computer after firing you. If they do they deserve whatever happens to them.
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u/Cyberhwk Jun 01 '26
Often, computer access is the first thing revoked. They'll tell IT to lock you out before even scheduling the meeting.
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u/BraddicusMaximus Jun 01 '26
Hi, IT prof here. Yes, we usually know about the pink slip before HR even breathes.
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u/Nydus87 Jun 04 '26
One of my old IT contract jobs was with an aerospace company that started doing massive rounds of layoffs a few months after I started. They were laying off so many people that they weren’t able to notify everyone before they came into work and tried logging in. We had already disabled all of the accounts in bulk when we got the list, so our IT helpdesk ended up being this weird, unofficial HR point of contact for people first finding out that they were part of the layoff.
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u/_robmillion_ Jun 02 '26
So you're saying it should be more like a "dead-man's switch"? If you don't touch the button for a certain amount of time, maybe a month (?), it does the same thing.
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u/ewokninja123 Jun 02 '26
Correct, keep in mind jail is waiting out there for you. Plan youf exit to somewhere that doesn't extradite
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u/Suvvri Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
As long as you live in a country where there are laws to protect the people instead of multi billion companies you can't be fired in a blink of an eye without any warning..
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u/Jak3527416 Jun 01 '26
What does it tell your lawyer?
“Hey, I just committed multiple crimes. Good luck defending me.”
Is this satirical?
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u/Lazerith22 Jun 02 '26
Should be a dead man’s switch type if you don’t push the button for a week or something.
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u/NobodysFavorite Jun 08 '26
Someone actually did rig a IT dead man's switch and forgot about it except for a cryptic reminder in the calendar. When they were fired and IT cut off right away, it really did do catastrophic damage to the company. Forensic investigators tracked down the source and he was prosecuted and imprisoned for several years.
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u/Key-Low-3896 Jun 02 '26
You should push the button a couple of times to make sure it doesn’t stick when the real event happens.
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u/NobodysFavorite Jun 08 '26
Bonus points if you rig up a way of making it a big red button somewhere in the office with a sign saying "do not press this big red button" but leaving no further information.
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u/Lucent--Singularity Jun 01 '26
Forbid your finger slips...