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If I went to my manager telling them I was hacking a competitor's infrastructure and accessing competitor PII & proprietary IP, I'd fully expect to be fired on
by meetups323 5y ago
If I went to my manager telling them I was hacking a competitor's infrastructure and accessing competitor PII & proprietary IP, I'd fully expect to be fired on the spot. And they're the most laissez faire manager I know.
- Aeolun 5y agoDepends on how you raise it right? “I was trying to research how X built their app, to see if there was anything we could or should do in there, and I think I found a huge security vulnerability.”
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- aldebran 5y agoThis is still problematic. This runs the risk of IP theft claims. Additionally when you download and use any app, there’s probably somewhere in the TOS about not trying to reverse engineer anything. You’re probably breaking that at minimum.
- Aeolun 5y agoWell, chances are that I’m not trying to use their app in the first place if I’m working at their competitor, so I’m not sure if that should bother you.
- tsimionescu 5y ago> to see if there was anything we could or should do in there That right there is where the company lawyers get called, and all of your contributions to the company code base start being reviewed and ways to remove the most recent ones start being contemplated. It is extremely easy to run afoul of copyright if your employees go around reading your competitor's source code. You may well have a dedicated team that does this, but you'll be keeping a very clear paper trail proving they never came anywhere close to your code base directly.