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Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk by LateChannels on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:39PM (#14973928)
Looks like the executive who messaged them 30 mins before took it personally that they ended up presenting even though he asked them not to so he fired them. Otherwise it makes no sense to fire people right after they finish their talk, unless of course you got an ego to show.

Either way Salesforce really fucked up here.

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Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk by kafkaesq on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:49PM (#14974022)
Right. Even if he legitimately felt the engineers were out of line in some way -- firing them at a public conference (and not just any conference - but that industry's leading annual conference) is just dumb.
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Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk by Lazare on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:00PM (#14974115)
I guess. It's just so horrendously counterproductive, even for Salesforce, if it really was was it's being reported as.
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