So a question occurred to me reading an article on a sysadmin who planted a logic bomb in a former employers' system...

What would it take for any of you...

Dang Hugo, that sucks.
At least the Dr indicated you're likely to make a full recovery, so there's that.
(No pirate jokes)

Just was looking in the topic on using Numeric as a Primary Key...

I know I'm probably going to annoy Jeff on this, but can we put Jeff Moden...

So, which "Hacker Archetype" are you?
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7478#more-7478

Rather interesting idea, and frankly I think they can also apply to the non-coder type people in IT as well.
Myself,...

My unwind activities seem to mirror several peoples...

PC games (Some FPS, some RTS, starting to get hooked on iRacing)
Weekends I'll sometimes go out to the gun range

You should be able to backup the certificate that was used to encrypt the databases (which should be stored in the master DB,) using a password of your choice, then...

So, came across this article today...
Looks like someone has had a RGE
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/05/scottrade_vendor_exposed_20000_customer_accounts/
https://about.scottrade.com/news/releases/2017/statement-on-cloud-data-set.html 

I'm presuming you mean a SQL Login when you say "A SQL authenticated user..."  That being the case, it's immaterial, the OS is denying access to where you're trying to...