alt Hacker NewsGood lord. Smart people doing the dumbest things with their work equipment.
I have a former coworker who was the VP of Finance at my company. He suddenly got fired out of the blue. The company was in the midst of trying to find a buyer (this was announced) so this was extra surprising. Turns out, he knew a lot of bad news about the company, and they caught him looking for a job. They fired him because he was too much of a liability.
How did they catch him? He was putting resumes and cover letters on OneDrive. "Yeah, in retrospect, that's one of the dumber things I've ever done," he said to me later.
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A coworker of mine once answered the wrong cell phone and said the wrong company name. (He was working for a competitor as well as our company.)
Another turned his computer that “wouldn’t behave” into IT, full of porn.
To paraphrase the sage Jimmy McMillan: the number of people who interview on their work laptops is too damn high. I'm always flabbergasted when they admit this and not once has somebody who did so passed. IME there's a strong correlation between good judgment and technical prowess in this regard but I suppose stories like this prove me wrong.
being dodgy is hard work. it takes effort to maintain and the longer you maintain it the cumulatively harder it is to get away with.
We have a plague here in NZ of top-level Police officers using work-issued devices to access and store CSAM material.
I am constantly dumb founded at the people who conduct deeply personal business on a company laptop. Some individuals do not even own their own computer. Has every job hunt they have pursued has been done on their previous employers equipment?