Oh yeah, at my last job one time during a casual after work chat like a half dozen of my coworkers and I were just talking about what a hypothetical "disgruntled employee" could do to cripple the company if they wanted. Some of my favorites:
delete every IAM policy, role, and user so no one could log in to AWS and nothing internally could talk to anything else, but the company would still rack up their usual hosting bill
write a bunch of realistic junk data to the database, scramble all the foreign keys, touch every record, delete the backups
sell the company's domains
I mean, shit, I don't know a single devops engineer who hasn't thought about the myriad of ways they could literally shut all operations down in a way that would take their coworkers weeks to recover and would be impossible for anyone without working knowledge of the systems to fix.
Taking AWS down in solidarity with the striking Kellogs workers is pretty lit, ngl.
Hell yes :sicko-yes: we really need a militant software operator's union
Programmers really do hold a lot of power compared to the bosses that pay them. They just need some solidarity and they're good.
Oh yeah, at my last job one time during a casual after work chat like a half dozen of my coworkers and I were just talking about what a hypothetical "disgruntled employee" could do to cripple the company if they wanted. Some of my favorites:
I mean, shit, I don't know a single devops engineer who hasn't thought about the myriad of ways they could literally shut all operations down in a way that would take their coworkers weeks to recover and would be impossible for anyone without working knowledge of the systems to fix.