Job security gone wrong

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
                                                        - Ian Malcolm, Jurrassic Park

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Self help code is almost universally prohibited in contracts. I expect that dev to be sued into poverty.

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I worked with a security guy who did this, or something similar. He thought he was irreplaceable. Guess what? First they replaced the computers, then they replaced him.

The client’s lawyers will have a field day with this one to be sure… I have to wonder how many code development contracts have clauses prohibiting such code and even easter egg inclusions…

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Most of them, hopefully soon all of them. It gives us a bad name.

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