Sounds like they specifically targeted the gay and trans groups, which is infuriating but can’t possibly be surprising. They’ll be coming for any group that had their own chat rooms – minorities, Muslims, whatever.
This is America now.
So, a lot of experts are going to be trying to find the Trump pee tapes?
Does anyone else not talk about that stuff on work accounts? They’re just used for work and I assume my boss and his boss and their bosses will all read everything.
I don’t think I’d be comfortable talking about stuff on a work chat, but this sounds like it was specifically a support group chat for lgbtq+ employees. The entire point of that would be to discuss that aspect of themselves.
Edit: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-new-mccarthyism-lgbtq-purges
But it was a group chat for work. In anything even a little bit security driven it’s only for work related activities, just like email. I can’t imagine talking about anything related to sex or medical operations on teams.
That makes a bit more sense but I still wouldn’t trust it. We can get together outside of work.
I think for younger people, this is probably feeling like a betrayal. Almost like, “The boss said smoking was OK as long as we stayed in the smoking area and didn’t litter our butts everywhere, but then they just up and fired everyone that took smoke breaks the other day.”
“Don’t smoke at work” is an easy thing to say, and most people adhere to that in general. But it’s still fucked up to fire the smokers, when company policy just literal days before was “it’s fine, just follow these basic rules.”
Older people grew up keeping their private life private a lot more than younger people today, who have grown up online having their data mined constantly. Just by the nature of having grown up without ubiquitous data harvesting devices feeding analytics companies, we had more privacy as a default condition.
These particular folks were told they had a safe space for the chats they had, and then the rug was pulled from under them.
I’ve never worked with someone that effectively reads anything other than the title or maybe the first sentance, but I would also not use work software or accounts for anything I wouldn’t want printed on 20ft billboards with my name attached. That’s about the least secure place to do anything.
You would think that intelligence officers would know that.
(Note that this doesn’t mean I think they should be fired, only that they should have known better than to have those conversations on a system operated by the fucking NSA.)
The people working in intelligence are not always the smartest, especially when it comes to technology.
First they came for the T’s
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a T
Then they came for the LGB’s
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a LGB
Then they came for the immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an immigrant
And then they came for the non-Christians
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a non-Christian
And then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
I’m going to hazard a guess that if they had been hating on trans people and culture, or promoting conservative values, in that work chat tool then they would still have jobs.
Russian Asset says what?
This Cruella De Vil looking twat was no business in the Intel world when any given one of those people have more knowledge of actual security matters than she could even begin to comprehend.
Oooooph. These people are fools for using a work app to talk about that crap.
Sounds like it was an app like slack or teams where you talk to your colleagues. That doesn’t seem like a weird thing to me if you are friends with someone at work you discuss your life with them.
I had a teams app at my previous gig and I was very close with the people in that app, but if it wasn’t work related, that conversation happened over iMessage, not in teams where the company had access
