Employee Leaks and Firings

"Encouraged" is different from prohibited / it being a firing offense.I just checked with my employer. To make sure I represented the situation accurately, here is what I wrote (I applied the situation to our line of business, IT security, and replaced credit cards with another type of authorization token to make it realistic for us):> if releases a hosted password manager, where you store all your secrets on their servers, would <our

That's 100% but you'll also likely be in headlines and go to court because of it. So neither of you are wrong.The company is covering their own ass and part of that is telling their employees that it's important not to leak stuff.

>Reserve’s security team conducted an investigation and brought that evidence to OpenTable and started a dialogue between the two rivals. OpenTable confirmed that it fired the employee in questionlesson to the youngsters - never do anything smelly/unethical (dont even mention criminal) without manager approval in writing. Otherwise at the first sign of trouble you'll be made to take one for the team as it seems to have happened in this and countless other cases.I mean even in

Wouldn't this make it possible for a disgruntled employee to do something illegal, and falsely claim they did it on the company's instructions?

Pretty sure they have a NDA on the back with an abrupt termination of contract and a potential civil action if ever "the revelations harm the company".Plus they probably have the HR doing meetings on the topic and news from time to time of such cases happening.It is totally illegal, but a coder hardly is ready to fight for his/her constitutional rights when violating others.PS economical revolution and disruption (like raildroads and mechanization) are just synonyms of fi

If losing the job was not enough, what about a bunch of tech people siding with your enployer saying your are hiding something, not telling the truth

I'd normally agree with you, but it might depend a bit on management's likely reaction. If he has reason to suspect it would be negative, he might be right to keep it secret. There do exist companies that would lay him off and keep his work. That would be monumentally stupid, but it happens.

I know of someone who, at a different company, did this. They were discovered and fired immediately. Don’t follow this advice.

From what I can see, the real problem was that he leaked confidential information to the outside world. Unless we can prove some harm to the consumer or the shareholder, I don't see why anyone outside of the company should care.I still see this as a contractual matter. If his employment contract strictly forbade him from doing this (and it might very well do so), then that's grounds for termination. Just like how copying homework could be grounds for suspension from school. But stil

The realpolitik here is that you can get fired if you leak the code, legal or not.