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Is it, though? It strikes me as a sarcastic joke by burnt out security staff. Which would explain why we are hearing about it.
by WalterSear 6y ago
Is it, though?
It strikes me as a sarcastic joke by burnt out security staff. Which would explain why we are hearing about it.
- Twirrim 6y agoNo, it's very much in line with the way Amazon Security staff operated when I worked there. They very much favour proactive reports, and heavily emphasised that they'd rather have a ticket and resolve it as nothing, than not be ticketed at all because you're not sure. Unusual behaviour on a twitter account are most definitely things they'd expect to have reported to them for evaluation, or expect to report themselves if they saw it.
- WalterSear 6y agoEveryone, everywhere, favours proactive security reports, or should do so. This however, makes it possible to make security reports for political effect - after all, if your guidelines are to report anything suspicious, nobody can fault you for doing just that. Is it also standard policy at Amazon to leak security reports to the media, or discuss them with journalists after the fact? We both know that's not the case.
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- slickrick216 6y agoThis is why I said somewhat off topic as it could be like you said or it could a valid concern. I can’t really tell the intent. Irregardless I think it’s a good call to open a ticket. The amount of times I’ve seen something come from an innocuous user report is frightening. Actually rereading it again I would say the source is the person that opened the ticket and not a member of the security team.
- WalterSear 6y agoYes, I would argue that this supports my thesis - that the ticket was, at least partially created for humorous effect. If they were taking the matter completely seriously, I would not expect them to consider publicizing it, or discussing the ticket publicly after the fact.