Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People

Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by pimmen on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:12AM (#15754419)

And testing their self driving cars without getting the proper permits. And hiding shit like this from investors so they’ll lose a lot of money later.

I would never work as an engineer for a company like that. How can I trust that it will honor any deal I make and not screw me? I have to think about that with every company but this one in particular can’t even spell ”integrity”.

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by diebir on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:01AM (#15755118)

That's silly. Uber has a revolving door with Google and Facebook. Nobody is getting screwed, or it would not work to hire people away.

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by pimmen on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:18PM (#15760201)

Nobody's getting screwed yet. Nobody had their data stolen then covered up either, until they did. No investors were lied right into their face about this either, until they were. No women were harassed and had the events covered up either, until they were.

If the company views engineers as better than other people and someone they wouldn't want to screw with, I'm not working there either on principle.

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by derwiki on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:09AM (#15755144)

Google and Facebook are publicly traded companies and stock can be sold immediately; I'm not sure we can say Uber is not screwing employees until there is a liquidation event (not counting the internal buy back program)

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