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That's insane.. He must have really hated his job.
and everyone else. Seriously. No sympathetic human being would do this without a deep-rooted hatred to everyone involved.
I watched my friend swap the 'm' and 'n' keys around on the two tech directors keyboards the evening he left after goodbye drinks, the next day they both had to contact the IT support department as it turns out they still look at their keyboard whilst tapping in their passwords... amazing!
IT guy is like "well that's the stupidest thing I ever heard", but he tromps up to the reporter's cubicle, and sure enough, same thing happens to him.
Eventually he discovers you can only log in if you're touch-typing, because a few letters got swapped, and nobody touch-types when they're standing up.
Something I wrote to amuse the junior front end developers here: document.write('Error: Script not found.'); var node = document.currentScript; if (node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); } Pop that in a JS file called something like jQuery.min.js and add it to an HTML page with the usual . It'll run when the page loads, add the line of text to the page, and then it'll remove it's own tag so there's no…
Why wouldn't you search for 'Script not found' in the source code..?
var msg = ['E','r','r','o','r',':','S','c','r','i','p','t',' ','n','o','t',' ','f','o','u','n','d'];
document.write(msg.join(''));I joked about starting a salary spreadsheet during my last week. Management wouldn't even make eye contact with me on the last day. :P
It is always a funny joke to say "commit this when you leave a job". But I always wondered if there are people that actually do this. Although it could be funny and give a sense of revenge for some wrong (perceived or real) that the person leaving might have suffered, I don't think this would be a good idea. Contracts usually include liability for gross negligence or wilful misconduct. Does anybody have a record of t…
The horror story that I heard was a disgruntled engineer silently replaced the source codes (C++ based) in the project with compiled binary object files and he kept the source codes on his local computer, not checking those in. He did this over an extended period of time to make sure this crept into the backup tapes as well. No one found out because each engineer owned a code module of their own. Then he resigned. Wh…
This is so childish and stupid it aggravates me. It only proves that the engineer was probably not a valuable asset and he really proved the company point with these actions. Hopefully he was on a performance plan or something similar.
At companies where there have been poor code control practices I have maintained git repositories locally of various files in the system to avoid exactly this thing, and to find issues/when things have changed (this too often is because operations teams don't like to maintain their files properly, so I go out to web servers and pull down configuration files on a daily basis and check them in somewhere. Now I'm telling them when their files changed).
Regardless, I have to assume this is before git/svn/mercurial. At least I hope it is.
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Why wouldn't you search for 'Script not found' in the source code..?
The point wasn't to leave people puzzling over it for hours. It was a bit of fun. But ... It'd be quite trivial to hide the string. var msg = ['E','r','r','o','r',':','S','c','r','i','p','t',' ','n','o','t',' ','f','o','u','n','d']; document.write(msg.join(''));
"probably can live undetected quite long" indeed...
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PHP actually allows much less mischief here than C or, say, Python does. It doesn't let you redefine or delete functions, classes or constants, unlike C where macros can be abused for this, and Python where you can delete anything. But you could hide all errors if you want to screw with people: error_reporting(0); set_ini('display_errors', '0'); set_error_handler(function () { return TRUE; }, E_ALL | E_STRICT); set_e…
Well yes of course you can, we're talking about PHP here. http://php.net/runkit_function_rename