Earlier quoted context omitted.
@dang doesn't work write an email if you mean your comment in a non performative way.
Oh? I've seen him respond to that many times in the past...assumed he had some hook for those.
Correlation vs causation?
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#132I am a freelancer on Fiverr, this is VERY concerning. The amount of PII that I have sent over Fiverr, after sending NDA's is potentially all out in the public. I hope there will be accountability for this. IMO Fiverr has had terrible management for years! They simply do not care about their freelancers (and apparently also not about their customers).
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#133Wow, the other comments weren't exaggerating. This is really bad. If my tax returns or other data were part of this, I might consider legal action. I wonder if somewhere like Wired/Ars Technica/404media might pick this up?
> I wonder if somewhere like Wired/Ars Technica/404media might pick this up?
Might also want to add El Reg [1] to the list.
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#134I am a freelancer on Fiverr, this is VERY concerning. The amount of PII that I have sent over Fiverr, after sending NDA's is potentially all out in the public. I hope there will be accountability for this. IMO Fiverr has had terrible management for years! They simply do not care about their freelancers (and apparently also not about their customers).
Amazing that a company whose whole brand is based on hiring people for $5 turns out to not respect the workers who created value on their platform.
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#135In spite of how the pollies sell it, regulation is the friend of anyone earning less than one million dollars per year. Regulation would fix this. Get on it.
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#136Software development jobs are too accessible. Jobs with access to/control over millions of people's data should require some kind of genuine software engineering certification, and there should be business-cratering fines for something as egregious as completely ignoring security reports. It is ridiculous how we've completely normalised leaks like this on a weekly or almost-daily basis.
some kind of genuine software engineering certification That only gives those in power another way to push people into toeing the line. There's enough corporate authoritarianism these days as it is already. Give Stallman's "Right to Read" a read. His dystopia is exactly where we're going to be headed quickly if we keep demanding someone to "do something". "The optimal amount of fraud is nonzero." "Those who give up f…
You're responding to literally 7 words out of context.
> Jobs with access to/control over millions of people's data should require some kind of genuine software engineering certification
FAANG, Fortune 500, etc., almost universally go out of their way to violate user freedom in pursuit of profit. Regulation is practically the only way to force megacorps to respect users' rights and improve their security, as evidenced by right-to-repair, surveillance/privacy, and so on.
And none of that has anything to do with users' individual rights to create, run, and modify their own software.
(Yes, regulatory capture exists, no, it doesn't mean all regulation is bad.)
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#137In spite of how the pollies sell it, regulation is the friend of anyone earning less than one million dollars per year. Regulation would fix this. Get on it.
Sorry, didn't make it clear. If a company does not publicly respond to a privately made security breach allegation, they are in breach of their responsibility to maintain business. If the breach is rubbish, the alleger looks bad.
The best to you.
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Re: Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
#139I am a freelancer on Fiverr, this is VERY concerning. The amount of PII that I have sent over Fiverr, after sending NDA's is potentially all out in the public. I hope there will be accountability for this. IMO Fiverr has had terrible management for years! They simply do not care about their freelancers (and apparently also not about their customers).
Amazing that a company whose whole brand is based on hiring people for $5 turns out to not respect the workers who created value on their platform.
I get your criticism, however, there was a lot of talent working on the platform for many years. I was averaging 150 USD per project, significantly more than 5 USD.
Last year Fiverr started to push AI to the detriments of their freelancers, as well as a new "success score" metric, but never specifying how these metrics are calculated, making it very hard for freelancers to do something about it. This caused many accounts to "lose value" and thus rank lower on searches, causing a drop in income.
I've reported this on the Fiverr Freelancer Forums, let's see how long my post stays up...