BOFH files an appeal
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/23/michael_thomas_appeals_conviction/
And so Thomas drove to the office Sunday evening and start working on getting it back up. While there, however, the rogue employee also carried out a whole range of activities, before departing a few hours later and leaving his keys, laptop, badge and a resignation letter – which were discovered the next morning.
That Sunday, Thomas deleted remotely stored backups and turned off the automated backup system. He made some changes to VPN authentication that basically locked everybody out, and turned off the automatic restart. He deleted internal IT wiki pages, removed users from a mailing list, deactivated the company's pager notification system, and a number of other things that basically created a huge mess that the company spent the whole of Monday sorting out (it turned out there were local copies of the deleted backups).
And so Thomas drove to the office Sunday evening and start working on getting it back up. While there, however, the rogue employee also carried out a whole range of activities, before departing a few hours later and leaving his keys, laptop, badge and a resignation letter – which were discovered the next morning.
That Sunday, Thomas deleted remotely stored backups and turned off the automated backup system. He made some changes to VPN authentication that basically locked everybody out, and turned off the automatic restart. He deleted internal IT wiki pages, removed users from a mailing list, deactivated the company's pager notification system, and a number of other things that basically created a huge mess that the company spent the whole of Monday sorting out (it turned out there were local copies of the deleted backups).
