On Saturday 28 October 2006 21:48, stephan beal wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 12:09, Matthew Stringer wrote:
If there were no backups, then the organization he worked for is just as guilty as he is for the lost data.
To second Anders' note about suing the guy: i would honestly contact the police and see if you can pursue that as a cyber crime. i wouldn't be surprised if the intentional destruction of a company's electronic assets can be presecuted as a felony crime (perhaps even "terrorism", considering the "flexible" definition of that word). AFAIK, cyber-crime automatically falls into the realm of the FBI, and not local authorities (an employee stole some proprietary info from my mom's company computers when he left, and she was directed to the FBI... who in turn refused to even look at the evidence (videos) which she brought them).
The guy needs to have his balls removed unless, of course, the 900 sites he deleted were kiddy porn or some such, in which case he did the right thing ;).
the guy had been laid off, decided to trash the machine and the backup to get back at his employer.