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How to Land an Engineering Job :: David Byttow
https://medium.com/tech-talk/d5f8051afce2
Started early 2000s?
It's an acceptable practice to sell information gained through interactions (sales) to other companies.
This is different from someone blogging that they sat next to a person on the subway who was wearing a trenchcoat.
selling the information
the information is personal and not changable (SSN)
the information is bundled with personal habits
To "opt out" of having your information (name, phone, address, etc) sold or shared between companies is morally bad.
In an ideal world, if I purchase a car, then that transaction exists between the buyer and the seller. Is there an expectation of privacy?
Better: "opt in" to share your information, and perhaps make a fractional profit.
1-888-5OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688)
provide name, phone, address, DOB, SSN
When thinking of a solution for problems faced by other people, apply the golden rule ("do unto others as you would have them do unto you").
For instance:
immigration
Suppose you think all immigrants should be forcibly and immediately taken back to their country of origin. If you were born in a very poor country where you have no meaningful chance of improving your life, and by staying you are risking your life, then would you attempt to move to your neighboring country, which is rich and safe? Probably yes. What does this imply? It means to reduce the pressure for immigrants to move, the status of their original country needs to be improved. This will not stop immigration and it will not be immediate, but it addresses long term forecasts of immigration.
healthcare
Suppose you are against government-provided healthcare system. Now suppose you or your child has lukemia. Do you expect a profit-driven company (an insurance provider) to offer a healthcare plan, much less at reasonable rates? And even if you do get that, what happens when you lose your job? In reality, you may not face these questions. What about the people that do?
abortion
You're a male. You don't care about abortion. Or your religious, and you think no one should have abortions, ever. Now put yourself in the shoes of a woman, age 15, who has just been raped by her uncle. Still want to keep the baby?
gun control
Your a strong supporter of the right to carry weapons and an NRA member. Now imagine your the parent of a mentally deranged sociopath who just turned 18. Do you still want your child to be able to apply for and sucessfully get a gun licence?
You, the Google Search/Gmail/Chrome user are the "product".
The advertisers are the "customer".
The services on offer are the "bait".
In television, you are the product
The advertisers are the "customer".
The entertainment on offer is the "bait".
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/08/24/1731228.shtml
The best security consultant I met was not a super geek able to hack
my Checkpoint installation. He was a very kind, easy going guy, who
started by explaining that absolute security was impossible. He asked
the management what was the most important stuff to protect, and
against who. In a single meeting, less than one hour, he understood
our business and our needs, and instead of freaking the management
with catastrophe scenarios, he built a security architecture in layers
around our most valuable assets.
He did not try to draw suspicion on employees at large. He asked
simple questions like: what if an employee in such position is not as
competent or as honest as you thought, or what if an employee in this
other position starts having problems at home and this lead him to
lower his standards at work? Or what if this key employee was injured
and could not even communicate with his replacement for weeks?
Other good questions he asked: did you see the graffiti in the parking
lot? (yes). Do you think the company or someone here was directly
targeted? (No). Then why did someone make this graffiti? (Because he
had a can of spray and too much time). Anybody here has a teenager at
home with unsupervised access to high-speed internet? (Silence).
Anybody here has a teenager at home with unsupervised access to the
computer where you have your VPN client installed? (More silence).
In the end that guy provided us with an excellent audit, and a very
cost-effective implementation plan for a security upgrade. I don't
think he left the building feeling bad for his pessimism; instead I am
pretty sure he left with a smile, knowing he helped his customers to
get what they needed. Maybe the NSA or some expert hacker can find a
backdoor in some obscure network appliance, but our biggest concerns,
getting our product specifications stolen by the competition or our
CRM database plundered by a disgruntled employee, is not gonna happen.
Use perversions of initialisms to describe what the thing really is/does. For example,
TSA = Theatrical Security Agency
NSA = No Such Agency
DHS = Dumb Humans Society