P.J. Connolly

Treating all outgoing employees as though they're felons is only going to make matters worse.

It had to happen. With layoffs threatening to replace baseball as our national pastime, my colleagues in the computer trade press are worrying about the security threat posed by disgruntled ex-or soon-to-be-ex-employees, especially those on the IT staff. According to the more lurid stories afloat, the only question in the minds of your castoffs is whether to do their evil before or after the pink slip arrives.

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