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

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

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Post by OfSanguineFire »

mminer237 wrote: post #28
wongarsu wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> for long term effects of this practice see the Gaza v. Israel fiasco Isn't the core of the Gaza conflict rather that Isrealis and Muslims aren't related, but both want the same piece of land

Jews and Arabs both claim they are descended from Abraham's sons Isaac and Ishmael, respectively. In a sense, it can be seen as a very long-standing dispute between distant cousins over who should inherit their great(x160)-grandfather's land.

Islam teaches that relationship between Jews and Arabs due to Mohammed building on preexisting monotheistic traditions in the region, but Judaism does not. The Arab people and their ancestry is not part of Judaism’s own lore.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

clubm8 wrote: post #19
some_random wrote: post #16

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Because they're slaves kept in dorms in various South East Asian countries that can't leave, their handler wouldn't allow to go to an in person meeting or take a drug test. They're also usually lying about the city and country they're working from.

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

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Post by flerchin »

some_random wrote: post #30
flerchin wrote: post #17

A lot of the advice seems to boil down to "don't hire remote freelancers."

I don't know where you're seeing that, what advice here would make it hard or impossible to hire real remote freelancers other than maybe the in person meetings?

No RDP, no VPNs, verified working locations.

Typically freelancers work from wherever they want, on any random starbucks wifi.

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

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Post by Beached »

aaomidi wrote: post #27
BossingAround wrote: post #12

> Evading in-person meetings or requests for drug tests Why would they evade drug tests and meeting in person? Do the "techies" claim they are not Korean at all? Surely, a North Korean would pass as a South Korean to (at least) any non-Korean colleague?

If someone is asking for my piss, it better be in a sexual context. Drug tests are dehumanizing af. What I do outside my work hours is my own private time.

unless you want to work for the gov.

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

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Post by wizerdrobe »

BossingAround wrote: post #12

> Evading in-person meetings or requests for drug tests Why would they evade drug tests and meeting in person? Do the "techies" claim they are not Korean at all? Surely, a North Korean would pass as a South Korean to (at least) any non-Korean colleague?

Pure speculation, but there is a large North Korean methamphetamine trade. Allegedly, per escapees, many North Koreans use meth for purposes of work enhancing stimulants and hunger suppression.

Perhaps these slaves are being doped up to focus on the work?

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

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Post by denton-scratch »

toss1 wrote: post #26
denton-scratch wrote: post #22

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> foisting them on the Palestinians as their "government" Hamas (the political wing) is the duly-elected political representative of all Palestinians. It's not surprising that Mohammed Abbas cancelled elections in 2021. The military wing of Hamas is in the ascendant, likely as a direct result of the extreme suppression of Hamas as a political organisation.

Note: "duly-elected" does NOT equal fairly-elected, without undue influence, financing, eliminating viable opponents, etc. I happen to think that the POTUS is correct to point out that Hamas' policy of intending to kill all Jews, and intentionally targeting civilians including babies and elderly, is NOT shared by all Palestinians. If you want to argue that it is, and that Hamas actually represents all Palestinians, t…

> Hamas' policy of intending to kill all Jews

There is no such policy. Hamas's founding charter calls for an Islamic state in the whole Palestinian territory, so in that sense it calls for the elimination of Israel.

> then all Palestinians are also legitimate combatants and targets in the conflict

Hmmm. "All Palestinians" are not reservists in the Al Qassam brigades; but nearly all Israelis are either serving in the IDF, or they are reservists. And it certainly looks as if all Palestinians are treated as combatants by the occupying power.

Also, since Hamas won the 2006 election, they have not adopted their founding charter into their political programme; it's leader has stated that the founding charter is a historical artifact that cannot be changed for "internal reasons".

> The Arab states DGAF about their Palestinian brothers

The states don't; they care only about money. But their people do, and those states are bracing for trouble on the streets. And note that Jordan, in particular, has issued passports to a large part of the West Bank population. Jordan may be an Arab state, but it's not like the oil states on the arab peninsula.

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

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Post by some_random »

flerchin wrote: post #33
some_random wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know where you're seeing that, what advice here would make it hard or impossible to hire real remote freelancers other than maybe the in person meetings?

No RDP, no VPNs, verified working locations. Typically freelancers work from wherever they want, on any random starbucks wifi.

RDP should be architected around, VPNs are fine just not _commercial VPNs_, and verified working locations here isn't about making sure you're always working from 123 Foobar street but about making sure you're in the country you say you are.

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

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Post by gumby »

flerchin wrote: post #33
some_random wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know where you're seeing that, what advice here would make it hard or impossible to hire real remote freelancers other than maybe the in person meetings?

No RDP, no VPNs, verified working locations. Typically freelancers work from wherever they want, on any random starbucks wifi.

I believe most work from home. Certainly there are many “work from a cafe” or “work as a footloose traveler” people, but I think they are a small minority in practice.
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