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Not sure if they should fire this guy for being dishonest about calling other people work his own or promote him since he clearly seems to be able to get work d
by nkassis 14y ago
Not sure if they should fire this guy for being dishonest about calling other people work his own or promote him since he clearly seems to be able to get work done through overseas consultancy and get ROI from the money from his salary for the company.
- easy_rider 14y agoNot to mention infract security by handing out credentials to the network of a 'US critical infrastructure company l' to a China based company. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some kind of federal law covering this. (Patriot act maybe?) In any case he would be pretty lucky if he only got fired for this. I would have to pay a 10.000 Euro fine at least for disclosing company secrets. (Netherlands)
- chris_wot 14y agoI wrote most of the Wikipedia article on the Patriot Act a few years ago. I can't think of anything in it that would apply to this. I'm sure it's violating some part of the U.S. Code, but the Patriot Act ain't it.
- scott_w 14y agoHe was found out in a security audit. I imagine that allowing access to the company's systems is something that requires extensive vetting beforehand, given it's described as "critical infrastructure".
- snarfy 14y agoHe should not only be fired, a criminal investigation needs to happen. He let random strangers work on 'critical infrastructure' using his credentials. Yes, it worked out. Yes, the consulting company had well intentions. But what if it didn't? For all we know there is a logic bomb ready to blow some electrical substation. It's about the violation of trust. Is this something a non citizen is even allowed to work on? It would have been a great idea if he just presented himself has a consulting agency using foreign contractors, but what he ended up doing was immoral and most likely illegal.
- sauravc 14y agoCriminal? This is the kind of warped thinking that lead to Aaron Swartz's death. Please chill out.
- omni 14y agoThe moral of Aaron's death is not that everything should be legal. As snarfy pointed out, he granted access to systems of a "critical infrastructure" company without any idea who would gain access. This is and should be criminal, as widespread economic and human damage could possibly result if these critical systems went down. I say this as someone who recently had to spend two weeks without electricity and running water in New York City.
- pretoriusB 14y ago>I say this as someone who recently had to spend two weeks without electricity and running water in New York City. Oh, the humanity!
- thirdtruck 14y agoTwo weeks without electricity in the winter. People die like that.
- njharman 14y agoYou realize there are large swaths of humanity that have no electricity. And that in the past and even today humans survive winters in much colder places than NYC without electricity.
- pretoriusB 14y agoThousands of people have no electricity, running water OR HOME in New York all year round -- not just as a temporary inconvenience because of a storm. And hundreds of millions, nay billions, have no access to electricity or running water in the third world. Most of them have no access to food or doctors either.