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Not gonna lie, this sounds like something I might accidentally do. I don’t know if this guy had a malicious intent or not but I can see his point of view. I ins
by mcbutterbunz 6y ago
Not gonna lie, this sounds like something I might accidentally do. I don’t know if this guy had a malicious intent or not but I can see his point of view. I install Dropbox on my work computer and sync some of my editor settings over and some other personal things. I never transfer company docs but I could see it accidentally happening if I meant to copy something to ~/Desktop but accidentally autocompleted ~/Dropbox.
Gonna have to remember to watch out for this one if I ever go back to a big company.
- Jtsummers 6y agoAnd this is one reason why I don't install tools like that onto a company system. The closest I get is logging on to services through a browser. For something like getting a config file onto my system this would be done via the Dropbox (or more likely Github) web interface to my account.
- bleah1000 6y agoThe problem is that the engineer claims he only transferred some new hire information to his Dropbox. However, Tesla claims that he grabbed a bunch of other things like scripts and was attempting to delete them after he granted Tesla security engineers access to his Dropbox. I think we'll need to wait until more information comes out because either the engineer is lying or Tesla is lying, but it should be relatively easy to tell if they have Dropbox giving them information. If the engineer did copy scripts to his Dropbox, that is a serious security violation. Nearly everywhere I have worked, you always get security training that says under no circumstances copy company stuff to a third-party system. Even if you don't have malicious intent, security folks have no way of tracking what you do with the stuff after that.