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Comment by Thorrez

3 years ago

But how would you profit off of it? In the case here the company profits by forcing trains to use first-party workshops.

"Last time this failed, Bob was the only one who could fix it."

"Bob resigned a few months ago."

"See if he is willing to do some consulting. We'll pay whatever rate he demands."

I still occasionally have past employers call about things years after I left, and if I'd have been immoral enough to pull something like this, those systems could have been full of time bombs.

  • This mindset reminds me of the policies we use in the dev team at work. Any policy access that I suggest starts with the thought "If future me were to go rogue one day, how would present me stop me?"

  • But this is about a physical train that's in a first-party repair shop. How will the people who work in the repair shop know to call you, the software developer?