Fired IT guy puts porn in ex-boss' PowerPoint, gets sweet revenge

[HipChick]

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/23/6925925-fired-it-guy-puts-porn-in-ex-boss-powerpoint-gets-sweet-revenge?GT1=43001

A guy who slips porn into a CEO's PowerPoint presentation isn't the kind of computer nerd you'd expect to spend his off-Internet hours making homemade gun silencers. But disgruntled IT guy Walter Powell, 52, apparently wasn't in it for the lulz

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Powell accessed at least five employee email accounts, forwarding some of their emails to other employees — which no doubt resulted in a lot of awkward office encounters the next day (as anyone ever emailed smack about fellow employees can imagine). Pretending to be BSAS CEO Greg Warren, Powell also composed a fake email in Warren's account and sent it to the entire BSAS distribution list. Hilarity, most likely, did not ensue.

Then came Powell's coup de grace, the PowerPoint prank. Here's how it's delightfully described by the Baltimore Sun:

"It happened one day last year, as more than a dozen board members of a Baltimore substance abuse center had gathered around a conference room. The CEO was giving a PowerPoint presentation on his accomplishments.

Suddenly, his computer shut down, then restarted, replacing the latest slide with an image of a naked woman onto a 64-inch screen. The board members include city officials and foundation heads and is chaired by Baltimore's health commissioner."

[msongs]

1. this guy will enjoy porn in his prison cell if there is any justice nt

[LeftyMom]

2. Oh for heaven's sake.

Even if locking people up for a series of ultimately harmless pranks on their prior employer weren't a gross overreaction to a minor problem, it would still be an enormous waste of scarce resources.

Really, this is best handled as a civil matter. Or by locking their shit down so the fired IT guy can't access it, which would involve being smarter than the help. :shrug:

[customerserviceguy]

3. Well stated. n/t