Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App
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Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App
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Re: Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App
#2This is very much like a sign that Uber again takes an old path of silencing people and problems instead of fixing toxic culture. Makes me think that they also prepare to blackmail Fowler.
Re: Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App
#3Sounds like there's a pretty simple work around, just use mobile Internet not wifi.
(You shouldn't use corporate wifi for a personal phone anyway)
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#4> "Our activity at Uber has gone up 3x since they blocked us on their WiFi," Shin says.
Streisand Effect in 3... 2... 1...
It's 2017. Have we really not learned this lesson yet?
Re: Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App
#5This will definitely help fix things.
Re: Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App
#6This is very much like a sign that Uber again takes an old path of silencing people and problems instead of fixing toxic culture. Makes me think that they also prepare to blackmail Fowler.
Seems like they have probably already started:
https://twitter.com/susanthesquark/status/835193441814392833
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#7This is hopefully a prelude to a Streisand effect type situation here, but my biggest reaction to this came in the ad below the piece: an "article" describing the reason behind the F and J bumps on any keyboard. Does there really need to be an article about that? It seems like common sense, or something you might learn in any typing exercise ever.
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#8So employees are trying to chat "anonymously" on a tech company's wifi network? Seems remarkably dumb for tech employees.
It should be assumed as a given that any company or hotel wifi network is monitored and HTTPS is quite possibly is MITMed.
Re: Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App
#9Even in 2017, we are still not understanding that if you block something it becomes more exciting just for the fact that it was banned, ignore it and it'll die.
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