• Optional@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    In July, before the latest WP Engine blowup, an Automattic employee wrote in Slack that they received a direct message from Mullenweg sending them an identification code for Blind, an anonymous workplace discussion platform, which was required to complete registration on the site. Blind requires employees to use their official workplace emails to sign up, as a way to authenticate that users actually work for the companies they are discussing. Mullenweg said on Slack that emails sent from Blind’s platform to employees’ email addresses were being forwarded to him. If employees wanted to log in or sign up for Blind, they’d need to ask Mullenweg for the two-factor identification code. The implication was that Automattic—and Mullenweg—could see who was trying to sign up for Blind, which is often a place where people anonymously vent or share criticism about their workplace.

    Kids - when the website demands your real identification, it’s not anonymous, ok. Pick a lane - do you want to be anonymous or do you want to post on this “Blind” site.

    Here’s an example of my suggestion:

    Blind: sign up with your genuine work email so you can talk shit about your company, bosses, and co-workers!

    Me: closes window

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    18 hours ago

    Imagine being so rich that you can afford to burn down one of your companies and destroy large swathes of the internet in the process over a beef with someone using your FOSS you didn’t even create.

  • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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    18 hours ago

    If you’re using any work-related anything to post “anonymously” or talk to journalists, don’t. That Blind redirection is chilling yet it’s well within the capabilities of employers. The right way to talk to journalists like 404 is to find their anonymous contact details eg Signal using your own internet connection and your own device. Work computers can be monitored. Traffic on work computers or work VPNs can be monitored. Company email usage can be monitored. Company phone usage can be monitored. You don’t need to be incredibly private with a VPN over tor and anonymous services; you just need to not use company resources. Whether or not this should be legal is a different story; you just gotta know you have fuck all for privacy on company resources.

    I’ve only heard of Blind in passing; that corp email makes it too close to Glassdoor for comfort and it’s very clearly not private with that requirement.

  • ryper@lemmy.caB
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    17 hours ago

    On Wednesday Mullenweg posted another ultimatum in Automattic’s Slack: a new offer that would include nine months of compensation (up from the previous offer of six months).

    Upping the offer may get more people to take it, but now he’s going to get people sticking around to see if he’ll go higher later.

    • Dot.@feddit.orgOP
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      13 hours ago

      This out of the topic, but why do you have your account as a bot?

      • ryper@lemmy.caB
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        12 hours ago

        Oops, I was in Settings earlier and must have made a mistake.