update: This post works a lot better as a reply to
pzbagel, which is where it should be... except that I clicked the wrong link. My bad.
The system should have been protected by privilege separation. This guys account gets hacked, the hackers muck around... the sysadmin deletes the account. No worries.
Except it didn't work that way, this time. I can't even figure out from the parent post what actually happened. Perhaps a lightning strike took out the server room just as he realised his mistake?
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I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.