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What are they going to do, fire their wife twice? (I think there are some more plausible things one could imagine happening but I’m curious how likely they act

What are they going to do, fire their wife twice? (I think there are some more plausible things one could imagine happening but I’m curious how likely they actually are? The things I’m imagining don’t feel very likely to me but maybe I’m missing something)

pdpi 4y ago
Countersue for slander/libel/defamation/some other sort of "illegaly saying bad things", and use that as leverage.
- dan-robertson 4y ago
  I guess I can imagine legal threats but I assumed this poster came from the us where libel cases are not easy to win. And I also assume that if the poster and their wife are working in tech they can afford to pay a lawyer to tell them whether some legal threat has any merit or not (on the other hand, OP posted here, seemingly instead of contacting a lawyer so maybe I’m wrong). Other comments seem to suggest that OP revealing themselves to the company would be terrible for them but I don’t really understand the mechanism. Mostly I assume that if some competent company lawyer were to discover this, they wouldn’t go to the CEO saying ‘how do we best seek revenge’ but rather ‘what were you thinking? Here’s how we might avoid liability if it looks like they might fight this’. Maybe you think that’s putting too much faith into company lawyers?
dylan604 4y ago
I'm not suggesting this as something to protect the wife. The op created a new account for not wanting this to be connected to his "real" HN account. What I was suggesting had nothing to do with retaliation from evilCorp, but more along the lines of rational decision making for OpSec. There is so much data about us out there that has been collected, that the slightest misstep allows for anon accounts to become doxxed. Again, not for what could happen to the wife, but by using the named corp along with the approximate due date of the wife having just been terminated is pretty strong clues into naming the OP (again not concerned with the wife's info at all for this). Knowing the name of the OP would probably only be a few steps from knowing the actual HN username even if it was another anon account.

pdpi 4y ago

Countersue for slander/libel/defamation/some other sort of "illegaly saying bad things", and use that as leverage.

dan-robertson 4y ago
I guess I can imagine legal threats but I assumed this poster came from the us where libel cases are not easy to win. And I also assume that if the poster and their wife are working in tech they can afford to pay a lawyer to tell them whether some legal threat has any merit or not (on the other hand, OP posted here, seemingly instead of contacting a lawyer so maybe I’m wrong). Other comments seem to suggest that OP revealing themselves to the company would be terrible for them but I don’t really understand the mechanism. Mostly I assume that if some competent company lawyer were to discover this, they wouldn’t go to the CEO saying ‘how do we best seek revenge’ but rather ‘what were you thinking? Here’s how we might avoid liability if it looks like they might fight this’. Maybe you think that’s putting too much faith into company lawyers?

dylan604 4y ago

I'm not suggesting this as something to protect the wife. The op created a new account for not wanting this to be connected to his "real" HN account. What I was suggesting had nothing to do with retaliation from evilCorp, but more along the lines of rational decision making for OpSec. There is so much data about us out there that has been collected, that the slightest misstep allows for anon accounts to become doxxed. Again, not for what could happen to the wife, but by using the named corp along with the approximate due date of the wife having just been terminated is pretty strong clues into naming the OP (again not concerned with the wife's info at all for this). Knowing the name of the OP would probably only be a few steps from knowing the actual HN username even if it was another anon account.