How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie • Hacker News Board

Re: How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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Post by the_only_law » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 2:39 PM UTC

Run_DOS_Run wrote: post #66

>Evading in-person meetings or requests for drug tests. I am surprised about the request for drug tests. Is this common in the US? Except for high-security jobs, which are never possible remotely anyway, I have never heard of a client or employer asking for a drug test. If I got a request for a drug test, I would quit immediately. Even if I am sure it is negative, my private life is my business. Any attempt to contro…

I had to do a drug test prior to my start date for an F500 some years ago, but never again afterwards.

Re: How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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Post by psd1 » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 3:07 PM UTC

stuff4ben wrote: post #20

Wish someone would honeypot them all then reverse infect their computers.

I've always assumed that we (the west) do.

Stuxnet, e.g.?

Re: How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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Post by kube-system » Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 4:43 PM UTC

red-iron-pine wrote: post #130

kube-system wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why human judgement is significantly more nuanced than a pile of if statements.

the if statements just generate a flag. if you're flagged, then here is your plane ticket, come to HQ and let's prove your a real human. showing up, looking more or less like your ID and zoom call, and being able to speak generally about what you're working on is enough. like even if the job is 100% remote, fly em to the office at least once or twice.

My point is that the source press release was never a piece of software. It was always guidelines for humans to interpret.

Re: How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie

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Post by sterlind » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 1:12 AM UTC

ricardobayes wrote: post #69

Run_DOS_Run wrote: post #66

>Evading in-person meetings or requests for drug tests. I am surprised about the request for drug tests. Is this common in the US? Except for high-security jobs, which are never possible remotely anyway, I have never heard of a client or employer asking for a drug test. If I got a request for a drug test, I would quit immediately. Even if I am sure it is negative, my private life is my business. Any attempt to contro…

Companies have weird requests sometimes. A good decade ago or more, I was asked to sign a disclosure that I was not a member of a certain faith (that has/had anti-tech sentiment at the time). That would definitely not happen these days.

I'm super curious, what was this faith? the only ones I can think of are the Amish and Mennonites, but neither of those are going to take tech jobs in the first place.