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I know of deep fake employment opportunities designed exclusively for identifying opportunities for IP larceny. This is a huge reason for locking down everythin

by 2J0 7y ago

I know of deep fake employment opportunities designed exclusively for identifying opportunities for IP larceny. This is a huge reason for locking down everything if you have any relatives of important people in your organisation as interns. This is the oldest privilege escalation hack I know of, and you might want to see if your outside legal will support a fake interview process for your own people via a headhunter. Reciprocal and wholly legitimate arrangements exist like this in many industries. It’s frightening how much we found we were leaking over family breakfasts in seemingly innocent ways like revealing meeting details and simply mood responses to eager-junior inquiries. Send your sons and daughters to start their own business and learn to value poker playing before they get inside the “family” business. BillG played poker rather well I’ve read...

pyb 7y ago
Not sure I understand what you are denouncing ? The fake vacancies I had in mind are not so malicious. But for the candidates, in aggregate, they are a waste of precious time and energy. - Company has still opportunities on their website, in order to look healthy, when they are in fact laying everybody off (as is the case in the OP) - Company publishes an offer for legal reasons, but in fact wants to hire a cheaper resource from abroad once they've "proven" that they "couldn't get any local talent" - Company publishes non-urgent offer, in the hope to fish for resumes, and/or waits for years for the "perfect" talent to knock on their door - Company forgot to take down vacancy, someone got hired 3 months ago
- shiftpgdn 7y ago
  Those are all real problems but there is an insidious one where you pretend to poach an employee from a competing firm but instead just do everything you can to brain dump them during the interview.
SuoDuanDao 7y ago
I wonder how much of that information would be actionable though... I remember a story I heard at my last employer, one of our younger designers had brought some work home and his father, a VP for a rival company, saw his screen and exclaimed "This makes so much more sense! Why aren't we doing this?!" But of course, they didn't start doing it like that because they had a huge workforce already trained on their own process and the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. I'm not sure how I would actually exploit a rival's meeting minutes even if I had them and no scruples.
blaser-waffle 7y ago
This is almost certainly a niche issue, at best.

by 2J0 7y ago

pyb 7y ago

Not sure I understand what you are denouncing ? The fake vacancies I had in mind are not so malicious. But for the candidates, in aggregate, they are a waste of precious time and energy. - Company has still opportunities on their website, in order to look healthy, when they are in fact laying everybody off (as is the case in the OP) - Company publishes an offer for legal reasons, but in fact wants to hire a cheaper resource from abroad once they've "proven" that they "couldn't get any local talent" - Company publishes non-urgent offer, in the hope to fish for resumes, and/or waits for years for the "perfect" talent to knock on their door - Company forgot to take down vacancy, someone got hired 3 months ago

shiftpgdn 7y ago
Those are all real problems but there is an insidious one where you pretend to poach an employee from a competing firm but instead just do everything you can to brain dump them during the interview.

SuoDuanDao 7y ago

I wonder how much of that information would be actionable though... I remember a story I heard at my last employer, one of our younger designers had brought some work home and his father, a VP for a rival company, saw his screen and exclaimed "This makes so much more sense! Why aren't we doing this?!" But of course, they didn't start doing it like that because they had a huge workforce already trained on their own process and the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. I'm not sure how I would actually exploit a rival's meeting minutes even if I had them and no scruples.

blaser-waffle 7y ago

This is almost certainly a niche issue, at best.