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Originally Posted by Willravel
Deliberate sabotage requires a proactive response. Most people that actively sabotage other people generally only have a few basic tactics in their bag of tricks, and once you have them listed they are easy to predict.
Say, for example, someone likes stealing your work. Do what any good 80s teen comedy proposes and set them up to take responsibility for shoddy work. Say that this person lies about you to your boss. Set them up to lie about something to someone that knows the accusations are false. Does she take things from your computer? Bring in a laptop from home that's password protected. Gossip? Gossip is about power, and a gossiper's power is in people's willingness to accept the gossip. Earn a sterling reputation with people she might gossip to and let them know that she's a gossip... problem solved. Stealing sales? Provide her a perfect opportunity to steal a sale and set her up to get caught doing it.
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I've half-assed work that I knew would be claimed as someone else's or given only enough information to get something to the point that it looks right but has less obvious failure points.
You've probably heard of it, but if not, you would appreciate this story:
The Farewell Dossier - The New York Times
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"Why not help the Soviets with their shopping? Now that we know what they want, we can help them get it." The catch: computer chips would be designed to pass Soviet quality tests and then to fail in operation.
In our complex disinformation scheme, deliberately flawed designs for stealth technology and space defense sent Russian scientists down paths that wasted time and money.
The technology topping the Soviets' wish list was for computer control systems to automate the operation of the new trans-Siberian gas pipeline. When we turned down their overt purchase order, the K.G.B. sent a covert agent into a Canadian company to steal the software; tipped off by Farewell, we added what geeks call a "Trojan Horse" to the pirated product.
"The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire," writes Reed, "to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space."
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