No? Talking about harassment, sexism or racism in your job isn't whistleblowing? Choose the term if you will but I think it matters. There may be excesses but it's hardly laughable.
"Now, the real whistle blowers generally aren't going to be posting their grand expose on a job review site. "
Why not? It's not malpractice in the sense the company is doing something criminal or the likes. It's the company being general asses towards their employees. Again, it's more mundane, it's about bad ergonomics, prejudice and stuff that happen often but aren't the thing CNN is going to reprt every time but that people looking for a job may want to know.
"However, if someone does happen to mention something that might prove to be have probative value or might help authorities with an ongoing investigation, would it not be good for police to be able to discreetly make contact with them?"
May, might, possibly. Read the article. It's about a system that's flawed and it's being misused by the government. It is exposing people yes. Or maybe you are too naïve and you believe there are no promiscuous relations between the private sector and the govt? Discreetly make contact was gold comedy.
The problem is not making it 'public' it's making it known to the right parties. The problem is anonymity going out the window. As I said, you miss the point greatly.
And simply buying politicians doesn't stick as well as it did in the past, you need to convince the customers that screwing themselves is a good thing.
Right, put all the names under bright light so all companies know who is whistleblowing corporate malpractice. Also, grab them a blanket, they'll need when they go live on the streets because nobody else will ever hire them again.
As for the rest, it's disguised as a reasonable comment but it greatly misses the point.
Well, the US has been pretending SOPA exists before SOPA was even introduced so it's not really a surprise.
Sci-hub is an incredibly good thing for research and I can say that having been part of projects that relied heavily on it since we didn't have access to traditional structures. Of course, officially we got it from universities and colleagues.
Well, the suspect was acting weird. I'm quite sure that if you remain calm, do everything the officer says while clearly stating what you are going to do you are safe. *cough*Philando Castile*cough*
But they do. And when it happens things go to hell and people get their stuff exposed. Companies that know their shit don't hold the keys so when things leak the only ones at risk are users that do security wrong (or their threat model says they don't need to go further, who knows?). And these companies cannot control their users. I use Google Drive for storage. All the files are encrypted prior to upload in my hard drive and Google can't do a thing about it. As the attacks on privacy and security continue people are getting more and more aware of the issue and will act accordingly. Good luck controlling open source encryption.
Harder's name is fresh in memory so when I read he chose him for his legal strategies I could figure the kind of tactics the article would show. Wasn't disappointed. The fact that he chose the likes of Harder to defend him speaks more volumes about how much of a piece of crappy human he is. Sad, his contribution was pretty decent.
They did advertise 'no logs' and you had good reviews in other places. Besides TD doesn't choose themselves, it's another system. They try to keep it relevant to the audience though and there were points where they removed deals in the past.
The farthest he can go is the Supreme Court so there is a non-financial limit. And if the success measure is money he met a very though foe because Techdirt has the community and other organizations that will support them financially. If Mike and the crew managed to get hold of the psychological component (the distress of being a target) the rest of the litigation will be easier.
I for one will try to keep helping as much as I can even if it's just a little.
I do pity him as well but I also believe he has had his share of contributions to the community he was involved in even if they aren't as famous and public as e-mail as we use today (you know, Tomlinson etc).
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There are fine people black and white (yellow, red, blue?) yes. And white supremacists suck, all of them.
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https://youtu.be/44icfBa5830
*sings*
With the added Godwin in the middle. Bravo!
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"Now, the real whistle blowers generally aren't going to be posting their grand expose on a job review site. "
Why not? It's not malpractice in the sense the company is doing something criminal or the likes. It's the company being general asses towards their employees. Again, it's more mundane, it's about bad ergonomics, prejudice and stuff that happen often but aren't the thing CNN is going to reprt every time but that people looking for a job may want to know.
"However, if someone does happen to mention something that might prove to be have probative value or might help authorities with an ongoing investigation, would it not be good for police to be able to discreetly make contact with them?"
May, might, possibly. Read the article. It's about a system that's flawed and it's being misused by the government. It is exposing people yes. Or maybe you are too naïve and you believe there are no promiscuous relations between the private sector and the govt? Discreetly make contact was gold comedy.
The problem is not making it 'public' it's making it known to the right parties. The problem is anonymity going out the window. As I said, you miss the point greatly.
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Re: $200,000 vs $22,800,000
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As for the rest, it's disguised as a reasonable comment but it greatly misses the point.
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Sci-hub is an incredibly good thing for research and I can say that having been part of projects that relied heavily on it since we didn't have access to traditional structures. Of course, officially we got it from universities and colleagues.
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But they do. And when it happens things go to hell and people get their stuff exposed. Companies that know their shit don't hold the keys so when things leak the only ones at risk are users that do security wrong (or their threat model says they don't need to go further, who knows?). And these companies cannot control their users. I use Google Drive for storage. All the files are encrypted prior to upload in my hard drive and Google can't do a thing about it. As the attacks on privacy and security continue people are getting more and more aware of the issue and will act accordingly. Good luck controlling open source encryption.
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Person: But I ate it, it was publicly available for consumption!
Govt: We don't care. Give it back now! *sues*
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In any case, PureVPN may suffer a blow now that people can't trust what it says anymore. At least it made into my own blacklist.
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I for one will try to keep helping as much as I can even if it's just a little.
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