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> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluation
by that_guy_iain 4y ago
> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluations and that sort of thing.
> I posted the tool on Slack so that my colleagues could also benefit from it if they needed to. One hour and four minutes later I was fired.
"I built a tool to allow people to copy corporate data so they could find a job easier."
To be fair, it seems like something you should only do if you don't care about getting fired and if you're already on the way out the door. Unless you're migrating from one email provider to another and your company isn't migrating all the data, most companies are going to take offence to that.
He is suing Twitter, I wouldn't be surprised if he lost because Twitter will successfully claim he wrote a tool to bypass security and allow people to steal trade secrets.
- amrocha 4y agolol He wrote a JS script that clicks a a button in your inbox. That's not "bypassing security" in any way.
- factsarelolz 4y agoIt's staging data for exfiltration. This is an attempt to take property and data not owned by the employee.
- amrocha 4y agoIf this was true they would have disabled the download email button. Stop siding with the company by default.
- leereeves 4y agoIt's obviously true, unless Twitter employees were regularly using work e-mail for personal data. You don't need a tool to download a few performance evaluations. They haven't disabled the "download email button" because there are legitimate reasons for employees to download data (e.g. opening files in local apps), but trying to retain access after being laid off is not one of them.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoLol Like a judge is going to understand that after lawyers spend hours talking about data theft and how they have policies and how the security team had concerns.