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Seems Uber's solution to every problem - throw money and see it disappear. If it comes back say - well that was not the intention. Threatens to become a whistl
by thisisit 9y ago
Seems Uber's solution to every problem - throw money and see it disappear. If it comes back say - well that was not the intention.
Threatens to become a whistle blower? Pay the guy 4.5 million and his lawyer 3 million.
Stolen data? Pay the hacker to delete data.
- make3 9y agoI mean, in the case of the whistleblower, I'm not sure what you do in this case if you're them aside from this. Which is why there should be a law against this type of behavior. There probably is; I'm a programmer, not a lawyer
- Tyrek 9y agoIn which case you can litigate. If it's baseless, the litigation should be quick, easy and painless. If it's not, then you have other problems.
- csours 9y agoThere are laws against extortion... the problem is, if you go to law enforcement, the item you are being extorted for might become public, even if it is unlawful for it to become public.
- thisisit 9y agoI am sorry but do you mean companies should pay off a whistle-blower rather than say - a. litigate, if the claims are baseless b. In case the claim has substance to try and rectify the issue along with responsible disclosure?
- make3 9y agoif you have reason to think that praying off the guy will work during a huge public image crisis, it would be a very attractive option I'm sure. they should act morally, etc., that's not what I'm saying. I'm trying to extract the raw incentives of the situation
- DonHopkins 9y agoPray away the crime? Sounds like Pence's solution to the Russia scandal.
- woodandsteel 9y agoNo, that would just signal that other employees could earn a huge amount of money by making claims about illegal activity, true or not. I really doubt that any company could be so stupid as to get itself into that sort of situation.
- daveFNbuck 9y agoWhose behavior are you saying should be illegal?
- make3 9y agothe person paying off the whistleblower
- IncRnd 9y agoIt seems that Uber is, so to speak, riding on other people's money. They care about growing as fast as they can. Everything else is deferred.
- forapurpose 9y ago> Uber's solution to every problem - throw money and see it disappear Arguably, that has been their growth plan: Throw investor money at unprofitable business, and watch the competition disappear. Is it a sort of network-effect asset bubble?
- user5994461 9y agoHonestly, paying to delete the data is not that bad. At least, they are trying.
- DonHopkins 9y agoI read somewhere that disk drives are so cheap now, that it costs less money to buy more disk drives, than to pay somebody by the hour to delete files. ;) But I guess in this case, Uber did the ethical and financial calculus, and decided they could totally trust somebody who'd broken into their computers, stolen sensitive customer information, and tried to extort them, so they paid him a spectacular hourly wage for few hour project of deleting files that he proposed in a cold-call, without even checking his references, and they even let him work from home! I sure hope the hacker gives Uber a great review on GlassDoor! It makes me think the hacker found vastly more incriminating dirt on them that merely customer data, like Travis Kalanick's email, with a smoking gun proving they're withholding even more incriminating evidence from Wamo than they're already in trouble for.