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Florida Man Holds Website Hostage

posted by on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:39AM   
from the taking-my-ball-and-going-home dept.

BK writes:

From WFTV news in Orlando, Florida:

A Florida company that sells online commercial payment software has sued its former chief technology officer, claiming that a porn site snapped up its web address when he allowed it to expire.

[...] The St. Petersburg company accuses co-founder and former CTO Lev Gorodinski of keeping vital passwords, software code and other sensitive information after abruptly quitting.

[...] Subsequently, all but one of Epay's 29 customers canceled their contracts, company officials said.

[...] The last customer, a preschool, left when the Epay web domain was turned into a pornography site, the lawsuit alleges.

The company's registration with GoDaddy expired and Gorodinski refused to give the company the information needed to access the account and re-establish its ownership, Epay officials claim.

Why is it always porn sites?

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• their own fault their own fault (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:43AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:43AM (#446260)

  Its their own dumb fault for not making sure this kind of thing was documented.

  What if he got hit by a bus?

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• Re:their own fault (Score: 4, Insightful) by anubi on Tuesday December 27 2016, @08:12AM

  by anubi (2828) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @08:12AM (#446268) Journal

  His control of that information was likely the only thing between him and unemployment.

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• Re:their own fault Re:their own fault (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:45PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:45PM (#446374)

  This is classic victim blaming. There is no reason a CEO, or really any other C-level executive, necessarily needs to be knowledgably about technology. That is the job of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). How would you feel if somebody said, "it's your fault your limbs fell off, you used Cetrateracylicdione for your liver problem" despite the fact that your doctor recommended it?

  You could blame them for hiring/partnering with the wrong person to act as the CTO, but not demanding technology documentation is not their fault, any more than it is their fault if the CFO was embezzling money, or if they followed the bad legal advice of a corporate lawyer.

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  • Re:their own fault (Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday December 28 2016, @05:39AM

    by anubi (2828) on Wednesday December 28 2016, @05:39AM (#446562) Journal

    How would you feel if somebody said, "it's your fault your limbs fell off, you used Cetrateracylicdione for your liver problem" despite the fact that your doctor recommended it?

    Ummm.... if my experiences with business types is any indicator, the guy fired his doctor years ago, as Google was cheaper.

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• Re:their own fault (Score: 2) by davester666 on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:57PM

  by davester666 (155) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:57PM (#446427)

  It would be better, because then they could search his body and then his home for the info.

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