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The fake people are sometimes backed by entire teams (the article alludes to this). It’s easier to do well in your job when you’re supported by a team of people
by klodolph 1y ago
The fake people are sometimes backed by entire teams (the article alludes to this). It’s easier to do well in your job when you’re supported by a team of people, maintaining the fiction that you’re one person.
This isn’t happening left and right. It’s an attack against specific industries, like crypto and finance. It’s one part of a broader pattern of attacks.
- danielvf 1y agoIt used to be only against specific industries, but now it's evolving. Now they have groups just going after remote IT jobs regardless of industry.
- nradov 1y agoBeyond just the salary, once they have access to the corporate network they can execute other attacks to steal from company accounts and infiltrate connected business partners. Most organizations still have very weak protection against insider threats.
- kelseyfrog 1y agoIf this harms the crypto industry even a little I'm not sure I'd feel even a twinge of sympathy. Is there anything I can do to assist NK in these affairs?
- klodolph 1y ago“These people (crypto industry) are bad people so it is justified to ignore the rule of law when hurting them” is a classic bad take. What you can do is regulate crypto into oblivion and make people feel bad about working in crypto. If you assist NK, then you’re hurting crypto but you’re funding NK operations (e.g. NK soldiers assisting Russia against Ukraine).
- kelseyfrog 1y agoIf I don't assist NK then I'm tacitly assisting the crypto industry. We're in trolley problem territory now.
- catlikesshrimp 1y agoFalse dichotomy territory. You can assist neither of them and be happy.
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- klodolph 1y agoYou’re on a roll.
- pixl97 1y agoIs multi-track drifting an option?
- ted_dunning 1y agoIs that so that you can take out all of the people in the problem at once?
- ETH_start 1y agoCryptocurrency is just a technology to give people the means to generate assets, and transfer them, themselves. Advocating that the state's monopoly on violence be employed to prohibit people from using this technology is incredibly illiberal. Regulation is just repression, rebranded.
- kelseyfrog 1y ago> Advocating that the state's monopoly on violence be employed to prohibit people from using this technology is incredibly illiberal. I simply don't care anymore. Cryptocurrency's value is as a cultural shibboleth to identify individuals who deserve social interaction.
- ETH_start 1y agoThis is really not a constructive comment to make. This is going to ignite a flame war.
- kelseyfrog 1y agoThey're in control and responsible for their responses. Blaming someone else for one's anger or overreaction is indicative of abuse. "You made me lash out," is simply not a mature way to live one's life.
- ETH_start 1y agoThe moderators of hacker news expressly ask that people don't post like you just did.
- fc417fc802 1y agoI was with you until that final sentence. Regulation can be used for repression but it's also an essential part of any large scale real world system.
- ETH_start 1y ago
- ash-ali 1y agolast years falcon (crowdstrike specific conference) they for the first time every showed live the interviews of 3 north koreans trying to get a job in software engineering positions at some forture 500 companies. i was baffled at every 'security' question to validate the person is actually in the US gets glossed over like: "my ID is at my home right now, and im in my office so i don't have that with me".
- tekla 1y agoI mean you see that here on HN right? People claiming that any arbitrary question is something they have no idea about, like the color of their front door.
- alwa 1y agoI’m not sure I know what you mean—I’m not sure I’d want to discuss the specifics of my living environment here though. Would you have any examples handy?
- tekla 1y agoIf your resume says you live in NYC for example, and I do something like "Man, I went to NYC once and got stuck in traffic on that stupid highway that goes up and down the coast of Brooklyn, what was the name of that thing?" and they respond with I-278, that would raise red flags. I have never heard of anyone calling the I-278 anything but the BQE. It's just like the bar scene in Inglorious Bastards, with the fingers. There are so many obvious tells you can have people divulge if they aren't actually telling the truth.
- krisoft 1y ago> "Man, I went to NYC once and got stuck in traffic on that stupid highway that goes up and down the coast of Brooklyn, what was the name of that thing?" I lived in NYC for a year and I have no clue. My answer would be probably something along the line of "Haha! Yeah. Traffic is terrible in the city... or so do my friends with cars say. I for one take the subway everywhere, so no clue what you are talking about. But sounds like a pain! Hope you were not delayed too long." > It's just like the bar scene in Inglorious Bastards, with the fingers. The problem is that's a work of fiction. These shibboleth tests work great in fiction where the author has full control over the whole universe. Work less well in reality where "universal" signals turn out to be a lot less universal. You will have a ton of false positives and a ton of false negatives.