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To: Ultra Sonic 007
I'm gobsmacked.

I'm not. This kind of crap happens quite frequently. Businesses / Organizations that don't have automated compliance enforcement policies & mechanisms see this kind of crap all the time.

Twatter's no different from more places I'm aware of than I can shake a stick at.

I work in financial services which is heavily regulated. We have our own automated compliance enforcement systems, backed up by manual audits and fed oversight who comes in and frequently audits our systems for sh*t like this. Not saying it could never happen where I work however the chances of it doing so are so slightly remote that if someone were to manage to manipulate the system, it would be discovered in minutes measured in the single digits and that device would automatically be removed from our network to prevent corruption/damage to our systems.

So unless a business / organization has the money to spend on these kinds of automated protective measures, this kind of crap happens all the time. Seen it first hand.

3 posted on 12/14/2022 1:34:28 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative
After a career change, I also work in financial services. The Americans (of most any background) take the rules seriously.

Non-citizens - think H1B workers - uniformly do not even understand or comprehend the Western idea of Right and Wrong.

I am sure there are exceptions. But once an HR dept starts using foreigners to create lists of potential new employees, the recruiters will game the system and get jobs for their buddies from overseas. Or for a cut of the expected wages.

Watched it happen and have lived it.

I get it. People hire people that are like them. But the HR oversight we expect simply does not exist in companies like Twit, Alphabet and M$.

And we as a country are poorer for it.

6 posted on 12/14/2022 3:56:43 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: usconservative
So unless a business / organization has the money to spend on these kinds of automated protective measures, this kind of crap happens all the time. Seen it first hand.

Ditto, but I think we can both agree that this was not about lack of 'money'.

11 posted on 12/14/2022 4:53:02 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: usconservative

Yes, it happens. In 2006 I was working internal security for a major defense contractor. My work cube was next to the regional IT security manager. One day, we got a call from corporate IT security that sensitive corporate data was moving from our location, to a corp location in Portland, Oregon and on to places unknown.

When we began our investigation, we immedietly discovered that the leak was coming from the IT security managers computer. Unplugging the computer ended the leak.

We never did find out how the leak began, in spite of NSA grabbing a disk image and running their own investigation.


20 posted on 12/14/2022 6:52:46 AM PST by jimtorr
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