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Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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Re: Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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Post by seanthemon »

resonious wrote: post #20
stavros wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The kid likes Pokémon so much he decided to look around the game and discovered some info, and this guy decides to call the kid up and harass/bully him so everyone will know that you don't just look around in his executables. Fuck this guy and this company.

Yeah, it sounds like the images were made publicly available by the devs. Maybe he should've gone after the devs instead!

Exactly, that is clearly an engineering issue and this guy only called because he knew it was a child, this guy is so small and insignificant he had to use BULLYING AND HARASSING a child to make him legendary. Lawyers are the worst, man.

Re: Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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Post by bowsamic »

greyface- wrote: post #2

The "wildest story of a leaker you dealt with", where they describe bullying a child for perfectly legal behavior, certainly was interesting.

It’s pretty clear that he’s proudly projecting an asshole persona throughout the article. I think it’s intentional

Re: Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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Post by [deleted] »

Narhem wrote: post #13
greyface- wrote: post #2

The "wildest story of a leaker you dealt with", where they describe bullying a child for perfectly legal behavior, certainly was interesting.

As a child who has been bullied by adults for legal behavior this hit home with me. Glad there are more people coming forward.

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Re: Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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Post by hackernewds »

Narhem wrote: post #13
greyface- wrote: post #2

The "wildest story of a leaker you dealt with", where they describe bullying a child for perfectly legal behavior, certainly was interesting.

As a child who has been bullied by adults for legal behavior this hit home with me. Glad there are more people coming forward.

mind sharing the story? else you've contributed little besides seeding curiosity, and a commented form of an upvote

Re: Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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KennyBlanken wrote: post #15

> When it’s somebody complaining about workplace issues, I don’t really necessarily want to know who it is, > unless what they’re complaining about is, ‘My boss is sexually harassing me.’ Then I want to know who it is > because I want to know who their boss is. I’m investigating, not to try to out the person, but to try t > assess the truth of what they’re saying. > I might have a talk with David. I might say, ‘Liste…

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Re: Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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Post by ryandrake »

constantcrying wrote: post #4

>‘Hacking software, that’s a federal crime, but I don’t want that to be the conversation. Why don’t we make it a conversation about the good and bad things he can do with a computer?’ What a complete piece of shit. Threatening a child and his parent because the child dumped some memory and found some file. He also knows that there is exactly zero chance for any legal actions towards that kid (and of course it is not…

Unfortunately there is no lawful way to penalize someone for being an absolute piece of shit, since being a piece of shit is totally legal. Shame doesn’t work: people don’t even feel or respond to shame anymore. You can’t punch them, even if they deserve it. So lawyers like this just live their shitty lives, threatening children and sleeping soundly at night on mattresses stuffed with $100 bills.

Re: Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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Post by rkachowski »

upon_drumhead wrote: post #8
hibern8 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. This guy sounds like a massive POS.

> I might have a talk with David. I might say, ‘Listen, I’ve figured out it was you. Do I not seem approachable? Why are you and I not having a conversation about this?’ Talk about an absolute terrible way to approach someone who went public about a sexual harassment claim. From just this article I don't think I'd feel comfortable talking with this dude about anything serious going on.

absolutely terrifying power play from someone who wants you to know both, that they can identify your anonymous activity and that they're unhappy with you. It just stifles further whistleblowing

Re: Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers

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Post by blueblimp »

greyface- wrote: post #2

The "wildest story of a leaker you dealt with", where they describe bullying a child for perfectly legal behavior, certainly was interesting.

That was strange. I had to reread it to confirm that he's just talking about some random kid looking at the publicly-available game data files, not an employee or anyone else with special access.
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