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Yea. Overly paranoid. You guys were surely messing with him all the time. The paranoia was probably justified.

Edit: At one of my jobs I had a coworker that put a program he wrote himself on my computer that slowly ate up cpu cycles until the machine seized up and froze. I always carefully locked my machine and out of "paranoia" I had usb autoplay disabled. That was long before this became standard practice in the workplace. He got it onto my computer remotely by exploiting a zero day flaw he had read about in the vmware driver at the time. Which I was using to get actual work done while he was sitting idly by. He thought it was hilarious. I was let go about a month later when I completed all of my tasks ahead of the delivery date. He ended up getting promoted to a senior position by accomplishing nothing and playing pranks.

At another job, some coworkers impersonated my boss by signing up for a google account with his real name and using that to register to the internal business chat system which apparently allowed that. And, then used it to yell at me with profanity that I wasn't working hard. It led to me writing a polite email to my actual boss stating that I was working hard and the profanity wasn't professional or appreciated. I ended up getting terminated over it. They're still there.