Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees

Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by raesene9 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @01:43PM (#31743109)

I see they cut off access for staff before telling them. not an atypical move, but I wonder if they were actually able to revoke all access, given there's systems like Kubernetes where some auth. types can't be revoked once granted.

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by 734129837261 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:10PM (#31747132)

Most people will have worked on laptops that have the software installed that allows them to completely brick the device.

It just makes me wonder what they'll be doing with 1000+ laptops and other devices. Do they expect people to send it back? Probably yes. I'd personally just declare: "I have low money and I had to fire your laptop service, thanks for the work of getting it to me, I'll be keeping it now."

I mean, that's what they do with the work of their employees. "I have low money and I had to fire you and 1000+ others, thanks for the work of making my company big, I'll be keeping it now."

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by x3n0ph3n3 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @09:32PM (#31748140)

> I'd personally just declare: "I have low money and I had to fire your laptop service, thanks for the work of getting it to me, I'll be keeping it now."

I think you could then expect a knock on your door from a couple of police officers. [1]

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/comments/v9acuq/l...

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by samhw on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @05:57AM (#31750953)

I think you could then count on the expectation that, as they say, 'not a jury in the land'...

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by x3n0ph3n3 on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:22PM (#31780510)

I find that doubtful.

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by 8cmj7A on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:48PM (#31747464)

Airbnb allowed folks to keep their laptops after their recent round of layoffs. Presumably these laptops are managed by IT with the ability to remote wipe.

If not, I feel sorry for the folks in charge of rounding up all this hardware to likely sit around and rot.

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by tempestn on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:23PM (#31748425)

IIRC they're offering 14 weeks of severance pay. I'd rather have that than a used laptop.

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by JamesSwift on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @01:56PM (#31743307)

I would expect there to be a VPN in place with revokable login

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by bombcar on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:09PM (#31743480)

Which is why even with zero-trust and such, things like a VPN can be useful as a "catch-all".

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by raesene9 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:10PM (#31743504)

As long as their cluster API servers aren't on the Internet.... which is a default for AKS, EKS, and GKE :) (there's 1.3M servers identified as Kubernetes directly on the Internet according to Shodan's latest stats).

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