Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown (opens in new tab)

"More-over how stupid does Fanny Mae management be to fire someone who can write and deploy logic bomb that meticulous in half a day? Let alone let any of their staff have that level of data center access."

Among their lack of oversight problems, this seems to be one of the smallest.

I wonder if the reporter meant OmniTI, http://omniti.com/.

Damn. You beat me to it.

If a grumpy Google engineer managed to cause their Chubby service (synchronized file write service) to start corrupting random files, then that might have a big impact on the integrity of end-user data.

My point is, even a well-designed system is vulnerable when someone has access to its internals. Give me a system and a day, and I could probably think of a few subtle (or not-so-subtle) ways to break it for the purpose of inflicting damage.

I don't find it that surprising... usually you'd hire people you can trust in the first place. And the guy might want to pick up his stray files before leaving. It sounds harsh to me to cut off everything before even talking to the guy.