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Cake day: August 24th, 2025

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  • VB.NET app that was installed on every employees computer to capture time sheets. Required VPN access so it could talk to the accounting DB using raw queries, zero input validation, and it used a pirated library for the time input grid control.

    The IT staff who would install the program on all new machines (it didn’t work with their imaging system) had a script to suppress the message requesting a paid license. There was nothing special about this control, it was basically a rip off of built in winforms controls.

    Source code was long lost, but reverse engineering and decompiling CIL/MSIL code is thankfully relatively straightforward.