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Apparently there isn’t a stick big enough to prevent abuse by employees. What a surprise! This is human nature, plain and simple. The threat of job loss did ver
by sigfubar 8y ago
Apparently there isn’t a stick big enough to prevent abuse by employees. What a surprise! This is human nature, plain and simple. The threat of job loss did very little to alter human nature in other settings. How can this go any differently at Facebook?
When a honeypot this big is right there for the taking, there’s no amount of threats that’ll dissuade the bad actors. The solution is refreshingly simple: don’t allow sensitive information to accumulate in such quantities and at such high concentration.
- toss1 8y agoNot allowing accumulations to grow is fine, except when they are needed. If they exist, need to also implement strong security compartmentalization, logging, oversight, etc. to prevent. And, the stick needs to be bigger too, not only firing from one job, but blacklisting from others, and prosecution. You do that, you're not only done, you're out of a career, and will be lucky to not find yourself in jail. (I'm no usually that punitive, but that level of casual abuse...)
- lovich 8y agoWhy would just the employees face consequences that dire and including prison time? Put the on us on the company and they should figure out how to incentivize people correctly. That's the benefit of capitalism right?
- toss1 8y agoAbsolutely -- increase the scope and also go after the managers and execs who design & implement badly secured systems -- you'll get no objection from me.