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Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack

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Re: Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack

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Post by WalterSear »

slickrick216 wrote: post #3

Somewhat off topic but this is actually pretty positive proactive approach to security in the finest spirt of due diligence. It should be ok for people to open tickets to look into curious things no matter how trivial. Tickets don’t have to become incidents. This is what triage is for. The real security incident here is how did the intercept learn of that ticket as that should really be classified.

Is it, though?

It strikes me as a sarcastic joke by burnt out security staff. Which would explain why we are hearing about it.

Re: Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack

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Post by whimsicalism »

bredren wrote: post #20

We had a driver pour out a bottle of pee directly onto the street in front of our place from his open driver’s side van window on Saturday afternoon. My wife got a photo and then immediately after they delivered packages and left I went and took a photo because I couldn’t believe it. I had not heard about the controversy until then, but my wife had been following it. I read these tweets and I also didn’t believe they…

You might not realize that this was an asshole move, but it was absolutely an asshole move.

Really, really not cool and really out of touch.

Re: Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack

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Post by AlexandrB »

fotta wrote: post #25

> According to Recode, the suspicious tweets in fact came at the behest of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had recently conveyed disappointment to Amazon officials that the company was not pushing back against criticisms that he considered misleading. > But company personnel think Amazon’s aggressive actions on Twitter are “embarrassing.” It's amazing how tone-deaf Bezos sounds.

It's not surprising. The biggest danger of having tremendous wealth and/or power seems to be that you can no longer accept and integrate valid criticism from others.

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Post by lostlogin »

Judgmentality wrote: post #42
notJim wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit surprised you sent the photos to Amazon. That person is likely to be fired. A bit of pee on the street is not going to harm anything or anyone (otherwise the streets around bars would be an enormous biohazard), although it's obviously gross.

Is human pee any more gross than dog pee? This isn't a rhetorical question - I'm genuinely asking.

I’m unsure, but cat pee is in a class of its own. That stuff is evil.

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Post by InitialLastName »

weaksauce wrote: post #40
bredren wrote: post #20

We had a driver pour out a bottle of pee directly onto the street in front of our place from his open driver’s side van window on Saturday afternoon. My wife got a photo and then immediately after they delivered packages and left I went and took a photo because I couldn’t believe it. I had not heard about the controversy until then, but my wife had been following it. I read these tweets and I also didn’t believe they…

I watched my ikea delivery driver pee on the hill across from my place right before delivering the package to me. it's probably not a solely amazon thing even though they are well known for it.

There are certain places near my house where some rideshare drivers like to idle, where the gutter always has soda bottles full of urine in it.

I don't want to disparage the people doing those jobs, but the rideshare companies have pretty clearly added quite a lot of oversupply relative to what the infrastructure can handle; cab companies have facilities and cab stands etc where drivers can relieve themselves, where rideshare drivers are left on their own to leave their fluids in litter in the street.

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Post by tmpz22 »

bredren wrote: post #20

We had a driver pour out a bottle of pee directly onto the street in front of our place from his open driver’s side van window on Saturday afternoon. My wife got a photo and then immediately after they delivered packages and left I went and took a photo because I couldn’t believe it. I had not heard about the controversy until then, but my wife had been following it. I read these tweets and I also didn’t believe they…

What were the biggest factors in reporting them? The average delivery driver works way harder and probably commits way fewer immoral actions then the average HN user for a fraction of the salary.

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Post by WalterSear »

suprfsat wrote: post #32
ericmay wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but I do mind them lying while they do it Sure, I sympathize with this. But one person's lies are another person's truth in this day and age, unfortunately.

You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?

I suspect that many people just don't want to believe it, and shape their beliefs to fit their ideology.

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Post by faeyanpiraat »

bluedino wrote: post #46
codezero wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 100% believe that drivers pee in containers - heck, my grandfather and I used to do the same when fishing - they make containers with handles specifically made for this. That said, given that the firestorm has become very public, I would expect disgruntled (or any driver, they are wage slaves) drivers to be acting more conspicuous to draw more attention to the problem, which may temporarily inflate its visibility,…

Why wouldn't you just pee into the water into which you are fishing?

Are you serious?

Re: Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack

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Post by tmpz22 »

aero-glide2 wrote: post #55
Raed667 wrote: post #4

For me, the recent (petty) twitter activity of @amazonnews was the final push I needed to cut all ties with Amazon.

Actually was glad to see a corporation tweeting what its actual intentions were.

But doesn’t their post qualify as gaslighting? The tweets said peeing in bottles due to extreme performance quotas does not happen and it very very clearly happens all the time.
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