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Agreed that anyone who knew about the flaw should be as suspect as the employee in question. But what was this guy doing pentesting a competitor instead of perf
by jahewson 5y ago
Agreed that anyone who knew about the flaw should be as suspect as the employee in question. But what was this guy doing pentesting a competitor instead of performing his job duties - that’s grounds for being fired right there. Even with an “ok” outcome he’d have arguably caused harm to his employer.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoI know right? I bet he even went to the bathroom and even slept at night. Imagine!
- MathCodeLove 5y agoBecause that's definitely the same thing.
- Brian_K_White 5y ago
- tptacek 5y agoCould you both maybe stop? We get it, you contemptuously disagree with each other.
- paxys 5y agoMaybe, but if his company really had a problem with it he would have been fired or at least repremanded when he initially brought up the problem, not months later.
- SamBam 5y agoEven ignoring that most software jobs understand that a small amount of time just noodling away on tech stuff is to be expected as part of the job, exploring a competitor's public APIs seems very closely aligned with many programmer's priorities.