Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk
by reek on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:25AM
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That is a very different situation-
1. The researcher you are talking about should have known the content was classified well before he did the talk. Whether it was classified or not was not based off the decision of a executive.
2. The punishment for revealing classified data to an audience is clearance loss & likely prison. It is not comparable to revealing proprietary company data that is not classified or not even covered under ITAR.
Re:Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk
by LateChannels on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:17AM
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But it was not classified and they had done the talk at a different conference. According to the article they got a message an hour earlier about not open sourcing it, which they did not do it looks like.
From what I can read about this the case is similar but in both actions it was a miscommunication. The speakers should have been informed that it was unacceptable. They should have been talked to about their instability to give the talk and the talk should have been cancelled. I would like to hear the other side of the story from Salesforce to give a full judgement but, I would expect a reprimand at best and not a firing.