If you were feeling malicious at work, what's the most damage you could do?
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I have access to just about every server we have so I could do a lot, but i'm not that kind of person so I wouldn't 
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I guess I could make up incorrent patient results and mix their samples up, and cause them to undergo the wrong treatment
Who do you think plans, implements and tests the damage limitation measures?
Long term, we're fairly bulletproof, but in the short term, I could nuke all local data and destroy the physical boxes, delaying recovery from the off-site tapes by several days, if not weeks.
If I'm feeling really malicious I can easily cause misery for thousands of train passengers in London by 'forgetting' to lift straps, change point settings seeing that I have full access to any NWR infrastructure in the country, no questions asked, throw up PLB's without a possession on a very busy track, change signal points so trains stop or go through them when they shouldn't possibly causing fatalities. I mean, I'll most likely be fired, arrested and taking to court, but hey, at least I proved how much damage I can cause 
With some planning and perhaps some partners in crime (literally) could do various things like obtain card holder data of some 60 million credit card users, distrupt the card payments infrastructure and operations of various household name retail banks and perhaps undermine confidence in the whole global payments industry which have implications for consumer confidence etc
On my own, and with no planning bash an emergency power off button that will cause the whole DC to go off causing fines of £40 grand a second.
Clearly not going to do anything of the sort of course.
On my own, and with no planning bash an emergency power off button that will cause the whole DC to go off causing fines of £40 grand a second.
Clearly not going to do anything of the sort of course.
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Oh yes I could, quite easily
... most of the checks are procedural to cover the company / ourselves against mistakes ... i.e. proper planning etc ... but if you were going there for the purpose of mischief then you would not be following those anyway. The same level of access to do my job, and quite a few of the same commands even, could be used to screw things up.Part of what I do is have to think about how to protect against this which is worrying at times, (I have had had a team leader in the past who got a bit panicky when several of us senior guys were sitting around discussing how we would bring down an estate of servers we were looking after and make it difficult to bring them back in a reasonable time frame)
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I could do a few things that envolves a regions plods comms system. That would not be good!
Umm, worst case scenario take out a few airliners over central London? It doesn't bare thinking about and god knows I've unintentionally tried a few times
Would non of the other ATCs/supervisors/computers notice what you where doing though?
Possibly but not likely til it was too late. We have enough close calls when people are trying to keep them apart, never mind if they were trying to stick them together!
Which airport do you work at? I'll make a point of avoiding it
I don't and don't worry, I've no intentions of doing anything like that no matter how bad a day
The people who work with your water supply, that's who you have to worry about...