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A Dev Built a Kill Switch That Activated When He Got Fired. Now He's Convicted of Criminal Sabotage

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Davis Lu , 55 , allegedly built a kill switch that crashed his company's systems and locked people out of their accounts when he was fired from his job.

Lu faces up to 10 years behind bars for “causing intentional damage to protected computers,” though he plans to appeal the court's ruling.

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