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Dev plants kill switch in ex-employer's network that crashed servers and deleted files, gets four years in the slammer — kill switch triggered by dev's removal from Active ...

A software engineer called Davis Lu was sentenced to four years in prison for creating a kill switch in his former employer's ...

Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems

A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer's Windows network with custom ...
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Coder faces 10 years' jailtime for creating a 'kill switch' that ... - MSN

The US Department of Justice announced the conviction (thanks, ArsTechnica), adding that Davis Lu faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Lu had been employed by Eaton Corp for 11 years ...
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Ex-Developer Jailed Four Years for Sabotaging Ohio Employer with Kill-Switch Malware

"The 'kill switch' code – which Lu named 'IsDLEnabledinAD,' abbreviating 'Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory' — was ...