Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-savvy coworkers

Re:Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-... by uberman on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:01PM (#25131540)

Ask it to send a representative to the meeting and then publically demonstrate how inspect element works. Then ask the it rep to confirm this is not hacking. Do not attempt to justify the use of inspect or the console as that will just open up a rabbit hole. Ask the IT rep to confirm this is normal browser functionality. I might even open up slack and show how to get the console window in the electron app.

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-... by thrwwytechsales on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:07PM (#25131582)

Yeah that would be the same IT guy that came in to the meeting and had to quickly hop off. I assume he would know about Inspect Element. What if he doesn't though? The company is based in a state thats the opposite of tech savvy...

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-... by dstep-init on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:17PM (#25131639)

Well someone had to have hired you. Does a CTO exist and if so are you on good terms? I don't think this is about inspect element anymore. Your coworkers revealed their feelings about you. Consider this: if you actually hacked the site for a gag, and they liked you enough, no one would've mentioned anything to the IT guy. This may be a good opportunity for you to jump shop once you are vindicated -with a year's severance for the headache. I wouldn't try to stay at this company unless you have some overriding reason specifically to stay here. Your coworkers view you as disposable. THAT is "disconcerning".

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-... by thrwwytechsales on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:21PM (#25132831)

There is a slight problem though. I am hired as a temp at first until the next few months through a temp agency, and with an option to give me a full time position after my contract expires. Do you think I have any legal claims this way? Also, its a very big corp, I was just hired by one of the senior people who are probably 3 superiors away from the VP of sales

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-... by uberman on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:05AM (#25138344)

I'm not sure I follow. If this is a "big" company then finding an IT person or programmer who can verify that this is not hacking should be easy. Even if this is a small company, demonstrating that right click on a web page (or ctrl-shift i) likely provides the option to inspect. If this was somehow "hacking", why would chrome provide every user with a "start hacking" button?

If this kind of activity was unethical in any way, why would Mozilla do this:

view-source:https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-... by thrwwytechsales on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:10AM (#25138426)

Yeah exactly, but these people are 60+, all salespersons for forever. A computer to them is like alien tool...

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-... by uberman on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:03PM (#25140063)

Did you come here to just poke fun at "old" people or is there actually an issue because if there is an issue you seem much more focused on how "old" and "unsavvy" these people rather are than on resolving the issue.

If there actually is an issue and a meeting I'm beginning to think that they are actually just looking for a pretext to fire you, likely because they can tell you think they are old luddites.

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