I wonder if there was a connection to the ongoing wrongful death lawsuit after a doctor suffered a fatal allergic reaction at a Disney World restaurant? That's the one where Disney tried to get her widower's lawsuit tossed by pointing to the fine print of a Disney+ trial he had signed up for years earlier.
add-sub-mul-div 2 hours ago [-]
They wouldn't be pointing to the fine print of a Disney+ trial if they had a murderer they could point to.
zardo 2 hours ago [-]
They would. Someone hacking their computers and causing a death doesn't necessarily absolve them of liability, while a waver of liability could do exactly that.
Enginerrrd 2 hours ago [-]
With all due respect that is just not how lawyers operate. They can and will use every argument within their constraints that can lead to a win. That's their job. They are even allowed to put forth arguments that are mutually exclusive and nonsensical when taken together.
add-sub-mul-div 50 minutes ago [-]
Very well, if there was a connection to a person who even potentially caused the death with mischief it would obviously be part of the story and in the headline, was the point.
shadowgovt 2 hours ago [-]
Not directly. His changes were never seen by the public.
billy99k 1 hours ago [-]
They deserve more time. Changing food allergin warnings could have killed someone.
derektank 3 hours ago [-]
>These intrusions included manipulating allergen information in restaurant menus to indicate that food items were safe for customers with certain allergies, when they were not. Scheuer also altered menu information related to wine regions to reflect locations of recent mass shootings. Additionally, Scheuer launched denial-of-service attacks designed to lock certain company employees out of their accounts.
Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.
maronato 2 hours ago [-]
He wasn’t just endangering them; he was weaponizing them against Disney. His goal was for their deaths to become lawsuits and PR crises.
xyst 2 hours ago [-]
yea, to be honest guy deserves much more than 3 yrs.
There are ways to kill a corporation without the need to use the same playbook as corporations (using others as pawns to get a point across).
77pt77 3 hours ago [-]
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kayodelycaon 3 hours ago [-]
> Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.
I don't think that really does. I think it's common human behavior to not think about the third parties you're actually endangering and only focusing on who you're trying to hurt.
We don't like to think of ourselves that way but it's relatively easy to push buttons on a human and get them to do things we would regard as "sociopathic" with out the person themselves being a sociopath. See On Killing by Dave Grossman.
JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago [-]
> not think about the third parties you're actually endangering and only focusing on who you're trying to hurt
Right. That’s sociopathic hate. Note that OP didn’t say psychopathic, which is something one is born with.
esalman 2 hours ago [-]
Corporations are cybernetic entities devoid of human qualities.
tinix 2 hours ago [-]
what do you think cybernetic means?
people have been misusing the term cybernetic for a while now, I've noticed...
Despite the word "cyber", it doesn't refer to brain implants or computers.
adolph 1 hours ago [-]
Cybernetic refers to systems of communication and automated control, which would describe the purpose of a corp in a broad sense, no?
The Dan Davies book “The Accountability Machine” [0] makes the link between corps and cybernetics through early business author/consultants like Stafford Beer [1].
I would normally agree but digging into the details of this incident:
> Note that this allegedly vengeful former employee also risked public health and safety. By editing the menus to suggest that certain items were safe for people with peanut allergies when they weren’t, he risked people having life-threatening anaphylactic incidents. There is no allegation that anyone was actually harmed or injured, however, as Disney detected the alterations before menus could be sent out to restaurants
Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.
There are ways to kill a corporation without the need to use the same playbook as corporations (using others as pawns to get a point across).
I don't think that really does. I think it's common human behavior to not think about the third parties you're actually endangering and only focusing on who you're trying to hurt.
We don't like to think of ourselves that way but it's relatively easy to push buttons on a human and get them to do things we would regard as "sociopathic" with out the person themselves being a sociopath. See On Killing by Dave Grossman.
Right. That’s sociopathic hate. Note that OP didn’t say psychopathic, which is something one is born with.
people have been misusing the term cybernetic for a while now, I've noticed...
Despite the word "cyber", it doesn't refer to brain implants or computers.
The Dan Davies book “The Accountability Machine” [0] makes the link between corps and cybernetics through early business author/consultants like Stafford Beer [1].
0. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
people have been misusing the term cybernetic for a while now, I've noticed...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence
> Note that this allegedly vengeful former employee also risked public health and safety. By editing the menus to suggest that certain items were safe for people with peanut allergies when they weren’t, he risked people having life-threatening anaphylactic incidents. There is no allegation that anyone was actually harmed or injured, however, as Disney detected the alterations before menus could be sent out to restaurants
https://databreaches.net/2024/10/30/fbi-investigated-disney-...
Fewer than 1% of allergy incidents result in death, which can't be said for drunk driver crashes.
This would be programming a machine to print "non-alcoholic" on alcoholic beer in such an analogy about drunk drivers.