Our hero returns home £500 richer thanks to senior dev's appalling security hygiene

Our hero returns home £500 richer thanks to senior dev's appalling security hygiene

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On Call Welcome back to On Call, a special corner of The Register where readers can share tales of their cries for help and the deaf ears on which they fall.


Today's yarn, which includes a non-Linux-based solution to Active Directory woes, comes from a reader we shall call "Clive", who was struck with a run of bad luck at the hands of the capricious employment gods.


Having taken the P45 walk of disappointment from his first post-university job, Clive was luxuriating in a new position of IT manager. Sadly, it was not to last.


"I was in the job barely three months when the managing ..

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