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> employees abusing privileged access to mandatory Chrome extensions Sounds interesting, you don't happen to have a link? (So I can read more)
by cutemonster 6y ago
> employees abusing privileged access to mandatory Chrome extensions
Sounds interesting, you don't happen to have a link? (So I can read more)
- thu2111 6y agohttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-google-fired-her-trying-notify-co-workers-n1103031 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-goog... Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.” Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813619 Note that she wasn't able to do that unilaterally. Some other member of the team approved her CL and others defended her in public. I have a vague feeling there was another case like this some years ago where some security engineer modified a Chrome extension for political reasons, but I can't remember the exact details and can no longer find it.