DevOps on the resume, Sysadmin in my heart forever.

Exactly!

One time I was deleting a user from our MySQL-backed RADIUS database.

DELETE * FROM PASSWORDS;

And yeah, if you don’t have a WHERE clause? It just deletes everything. About 60,000 records for a decent-sized ISP.

That afternoon really, really sucked. We had only ad-hoc backups. It was not a well-run business.

Now when I interview sysadmins (or these days devops), I always ask about their worst cock-up. It tells you a lot about a candidate.

The word is bootlicker. There are of course bad union leaders, and the cure is the same: organizing.

Yeah that’s some bad mojo

If you have civil and criminal causes of action, it’s often expedient to pursue the criminal one first, as it’s admissible as evidence in the civil case—the reverse isn’t usually true. I would be very surprised if there were not a settlement very soon, which unfortunately we will probably never hear about.

With the facts of the criminal case, I don’t think they would have any difficulty at all getting a legal team to go after EBay. It’s a risk/reward thing for them and the pockets they’d be going after are very deep.