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This is the same company that was in the news back in October related to harassing its own female employees with fratboy douchebag behavior: https://www.thever
by walrus01 6y ago
This is the same company that was in the news back in October related to harassing its own female employees with fratboy douchebag behavior:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/26/21535089/surveillance-company-verkada-harassed-female-employees https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/26/21535089/surveillance-co...
- tartoran 6y agoGood catch. I wonder if it’s just kharma or they were targeted specifically in response to those behaviours
- walrus01 6y agoOr maybe companies run by sleazy people have less than stellar infosec/netsec practices, or are prone to sweeping gaping security holes under the rug rather than fixing them, which will inevitably result in something like this.
- Balgair 6y agoIt's talked a bit more downthread, but I mean if the sales director is making public slack channels featuring female employees alongside explicit jokes, then long-term thinking may not be a strongly selected for attribute at the company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906940
- adolph 6y agoTo be fair, it was a specific person with a set of other employees who were all punished for the incident. It wasn’t the company which includes the people were harassed.
- jhanschoo 6y agoThe headline oversells it but your comment undersells it. The specific person and set of other employees were "a group of men in leadership positions on the sales team", including the "sales director". When found out, > Verkada CEO Filip Kaliszan gave employees in the Slack channel [i.e. those involved] a choice: leave the company or have their stock options reduced. All of them chose to stay and take the stock option cut, according to Vice. “I was shocked. To me that’s not just a fireable offense, that’s a career-ending offense,” one employee told IPVM.
- walrus01 6y agoIt says a great deal about the CEO's character and judgment that he even considered for a moment not firing everyone involved.
- bredren 6y agoThe video event annotations or filenames described in the article sound like what you might get out of a company culture that allowed the previous behavior to go largely unpunished.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoIt was not clear to me if the Arizona prison (the customer) chose those filenames or Verkada did. I could see prison guards doing the same thing... archiving clips that they find entertaining and naming them inappropriately. Not defending Verkada, I just wish the article made the culprit more clear.
- alexeldeib 6y agoFrom a different article, seems like the staff > Inside Arizona’s Graham County detention facility, which has 17 cameras, videos are given titles by the center’s staff and saved to a Verkada account. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-e...
- bredren 6y agoMy mistake. Would edit if possible.
- throwawayboise 6y agoNever trust a man named Flip. Edit: Argh... it's Filip. HN's tiny font strikes back.
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- wavefunction 6y agoWhy is a sales employee enabled with access to the surveillance footage of the home office? It's not trust-inspiring.
- mcv 6y agoExactly. I'm not entirely surprised to see a company with a history of unprofessionalism and poor security policies, hacked.
- scubazealous 6y agoYou would be surprised the unrestrained access given to sales and support employees at most small SAAS companies.
- Hypocritelefty 6y agoTesla shills will find anything lol