Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
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#3It's stalking and harassment incidents like these that I'm reminded of any time someone tells me they've got nothing to hide.
Re: Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
#4Impressive how they managed to nail seven underlings for doing it (five plead guilty; two went to trial[0]) but not CEO Devin Wenig for ordering[1] it, instead giving him a $57 million golden parachute straight into GM's Cruise. I wonder if Wenig being CEO of Thomson Reuters Markets from 2008 to 2011 has any effect on the way Reuters reports on this eBay scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Wenig
[0]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/two-former-ebay-executive...
[1]: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/...
Re: Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
#5So the executives who ordered this are getting away with this?
Re: Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
#6It's stalking and harassment incidents like these that I'm reminded of any time someone tells me they've got nothing to hide.
That's the anti-privacy propaganda working.
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#8So the executives who ordered this are getting away with this?
They claim not to have known about the harassment and stalking.
Re: Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
#9I've been following this a little. I grew up near the Massachusetts town where this occurred (Its a pretty non-descript suburban town).
So that fact that a big company and high up executives decided to target a very home spun news letter, is just crazy. Its like something went off the rails.
Ars has pretty good coverage.
The harassment was bizarre and threatening: sending roaches and pig masks is just the wierd start: Sending a book on "how to survive the loss of a spouse" is really dark.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/ebay-execs-sent-...
more recent:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/lawsuit-ebay-tri...
Re: Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
#10So the executives who ordered this are getting away with this?
They claim not to have known about the harassment and stalking.
Which is a reminder: If you are going to do unethical things, make sure you can prove that your bosses ordered it. Otherwise, in addition to being a rat, you will likely twist in the wind.