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Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

jamiewildehk wrote: post #55
javagram wrote: post #33

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Atlassian sent me an email earlier this year warning that all @company.com accounts were about to be converted to corporate accounts and that I had a month to opt out. (I did not opt out, because my @company.com Trello account was intended for use with my company) This person’s warning email probably ended up in spam. In general I’m not sure the best way Atlassian could have handled this. The recent upgrade to move @…

IMO they should handle secondary emails differently to primary emails. Some sort of in your face warming when you login to trello before the migration may be appropriate.

Just to be fair/clear, I meant "secondary email" in terms of how the user treated it, ie they weren't actively using it log in and presumably didn't know it was still there.

As far as I'm aware, Trello didn't actually have one email marked as more important in any way. Although they absolutely should have.

I still think Atlassian should have been able to predict this situation, and should not have considered it acceptable.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by znpy »

ssorallen wrote: post #168
znpy wrote: post #127

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> You don't need separate Firefox profiles for that, you can use Firefox containers. Firefox Containers are awful. Only firefox profiles can give you true separation. It would have been better if Mozilla had added a better interface to profiles.

> It would have been better if Mozilla had added a better interface to profiles. Profiles in Chrome and their ease of use (Cmd+Shift+M to open a new window in a different profile) is the primary reason I still use Chrome over Firefox. I have a Personal, a Work, and a Development profile. The development profile is where I install dev extensions like React Devtools, Redux Devtools, etc. because they require full acces…

That might work well with you but Chrome is not free software nor open source.

One might argue that chromium is, but in my opinion using chromium only enforces google chrome

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by [deleted] »

thedufer wrote: post #131
mattmanser wrote: post #118

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Did it actually come from @trello.com? As I got the same email from @trellis.coffee and assumed it was a phishing attempt.

I'm a former Trello employee - trellis.coffee is the domain the primary dev server is hosted at. It sounds like they failed to excise your email address from the dev database (at least, that's what we did when I worked there).

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Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by znpy »

diggan wrote: post #153
dhimes wrote: post #141

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Thanks for this. I've been naively using containers. Yes, a UI for profiles would be awesome- we've been wanting that for a long time.

You can either start firefox with `-P` to the profile chooser when starting firefox, or navigate to `about:profiles` to show the UI for managing them. Would allow greater discovery if this `about:profiles` page was exposed somewhere in preferences, but at least there is something I guess.

thanks! I didn't know about `about:profiles` !

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by vanburen »

geocar wrote: post #110
lki876 wrote: post #93

This sounds like a major GDPR violation. If they do business anywhere in Europe they could face major fines if someone were to lodge a complaint with a national national data protection authority. And here is a list of national data protection authorities in Europe: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en

I’m not sure I agree. I have provided GDPR consulting in the UK over the last three years. What exactly do you think was a violation?

If the boards contained personally identifiable information and then that data was transferred so that other people could access it, wouldn't that be considered a data breach?

I guess people affected by this could submit a subject access request to get their data back.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by ssorallen »

znpy wrote: post #173
ssorallen wrote: post #168

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> It would have been better if Mozilla had added a better interface to profiles. Profiles in Chrome and their ease of use (Cmd+Shift+M to open a new window in a different profile) is the primary reason I still use Chrome over Firefox. I have a Personal, a Work, and a Development profile. The development profile is where I install dev extensions like React Devtools, Redux Devtools, etc. because they require full acces…

That might work well with you but Chrome is not free software nor open source. One might argue that chromium is, but in my opinion using chromium only enforces google chrome

Free and open source is tangential to my point? I was commenting on the functionality of Chrome Profiles vs. Firefox Profiles + Containers.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by Aissen »

harry8 wrote: post #89

This is fantastic PR for Atlassian. All their customers present and potential are seeing them do exactly the wrong thing ethically in order to take a side against an individual in favour of an employer. Big gold star from corporate. Individual developers, rob them, that is fine. The customer is right. The user is not the customer. The other way around. Taking a firm's IP and denying access to it while giving it to a…

If a CISO looks at this, she might think "great, so anyone entering a commercial relationship with Atlassian can now eventually take control of the boards of some of my employees ?".

And that's not good PR.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by Silhouette »

abjKT26nO8 wrote: post #167
Silhouette wrote: post #158

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A lot of people seem to develop a strange sense of loyalty to services they like (and haven't been stung by, obviously). Try suggesting that you can run a software business without using GitHub as your single point of failure^W^W^W^Wsource control system, and a lot of young developers will just laugh and wonder what you've been smoking. Try challenging Apple's walled garden philosophy and suggesting that their mobile…

> Try suggesting that you can run a software business without using GitHub as your single point of failure^W^W^W^Wsource control system, and a lot of young developers will just laugh and wonder what you've been smoking. TBH, I've never worked at a company that would host their source code at a third party service. At my first job, we wouldn't even use a web UI for the repositories (I still think that's not all that u…

Doing a fair amount of work in web dev world in recent years, we've always self-hosted one way or another, but the newbies look at you all strange like if you tell them. Then again, half of them also don't realise that Git and GitHub are different things.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by omnimus »

znpy wrote: post #127
shock wrote: post #105

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> separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. You don't need separate Firefox profiles for that, you can use Firefox containers.

> You don't need separate Firefox profiles for that, you can use Firefox containers. Firefox Containers are awful. Only firefox profiles can give you true separation. It would have been better if Mozilla had added a better interface to profiles.

Why are Containers awful? Its great i use it all the time for this purpose.
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