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Glassdoor not so anonymous
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#372Once had a contract where my client wanted me to do "security work", which was initially meant to be for pentesting their clients, but it turned into me building their wifi auth system. At some point in the gig, one of their clients went to them asking them if it was possible to de-anonymize someone glassdoor review since someone still-employed worked with them. They then went to me to see if I could do it for them.…
DNS records of your VPN or corporate work station would be pretty easy. You can line then up with when the review was posted. Then investigate their workstation more "thoroughly".
why on earth would someone log onto glass door with their corporate work station? are they a fool?
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#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
NDAs are sometimes not in the public interest and should be violated in those cases.
NDAs have got nothing to do with public interest whatsoever. If you disagree with what the NDA covers, don't sign the NDA.
NDAs exist for a reason. If they don’t serve public interest, why allow them to exist?
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#374Wouldn’t this ruling destroy Glassdoor’s business model? And wouldn’t Zuru actually shoot themselves in the foot with this move? I’d certainly stay away from a company that is this litigious for such a thing. I think it would have been a better option for Zuru to have hired a new management (or reshuffle the old one at least) and do some PR to clean their name. At least they’ll learn about the Streissand effect
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#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I'm as sex positive as they come but even I think it'd be pretty dumb to have pornhub pop up while you're sharing your screen in a meeting or something
About as dumb as having model train collector site up, or reddit or hn or whatever...
It was actually kinda a joke with my friend when used to help him code. Leave something nasty open just for amusement.
One good reason is that porn sites are notoriously riddles with browser 0 days. To this day I get the odd Safari crash every other month.
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#376Does Glassdoor give a way for companies to do something about fake reviews that are done in bad faith? I doubt they check validity of any reviews, even if a company claims that it is fake.
I am not saying this is an example to such case but I don't see any other option. Other than perhaps suing glassdoor instead, would that do any good?
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#377Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous
#378Why don't they make the whole process anonymous? After verifying that you work for a company, why don't they physically destroy everything that could be used to de-anonymize you, leaving with only some kind of public key and a proof of that you work for company X? For the legal part I think there were some countries (IIRC Sweden) that doesn't require to keep any logs so that they can move operations there with an own…
I haven't looked at Glassdoor in several years, but if I recall correctly, back then they wanted you to supply information about your employment -- including salary -- in exchange for being able to see information from others. It may be hard to simultaneously provide users with anonymity and collect such personal identifiable information.
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#379This is interesting but a more accurate title would be "New Zealand law allows corporations to sue Glassdoor for user data." As the article notes: > statements of “pure opinion” are protected by the First Amendment in America. But New Zealand doesn’t have this. Statements of opinion are not categorically protected. That said, the warning that Glassdoor adds to the pages of companies that do this has to be the biggest…
Are such reviews always "pure opinion"? Things like "low salary", "bad manager" etc are always opinions no matter what but what if I am lying and saying "we do overtime every other month" or "it is acceptable and encouraged for people to slap interns"? Why to do in such case?
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#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. Definitely Streisand effected themselves. Wonder if they can sue their own legal counsel for causing themselves so much monetary loss (given that's the grounds they're using to de-anonymize the reviewers)?
Agreed. This banner is the new warrant canary [1] The Legal Action Canary? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
A canary is something which is present when everything is fine and removed when the situation changes. It’s a stealthy technique for when you can’t be explicit. Adding a giant red warning at the top of a page is the opposite of a canary.