• naticus@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    “Hacker” when the password could be guessed by an elementary student. Jfc.

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      21 days ago

      I don’t think you were quite grasping the scope the McDonald’s operates at. That’s only a couple hundred per location, and fast food restaurants tend to have extremely high turnover, so that’s definitely not an unrealistic number.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?

      One of us doesn’t know what that stands for. I feel like the time my grandpa died, and mom sent me an email telling me “We’re going to the funeral this Friday to pay respects to grandpa. LOL!”

      I was quite confused. Turns out she grew up with “Lots Of Love”. For a second she seemed like she turned into an absolute psychopath, for like…no reason.

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        21 days ago

        ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?

        In this context, it means “Edited To Add”. I do wish they abbreviated it some other way, since “Estimated Time of Arrival” is a much more common meaning. I would accept “E2A” or something stupid, as long as it was more unique. Alternatively, they could just use “Edit:”.

        Edit: added link.

      • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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        21 days ago

        ETA = Edit to add

        Just trying to explain why my comment changed, in case anyone saw it before that LOL.

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      22 days ago

      i mean there’s a shit ton of unskilled labor out there whose vertical reach isn’t that great.

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    20 days ago

    When I used to work at McDonald’s they required a fingerprint to clock in and out. They then apparently sold everyone’s biometric data. I got some kind of settlement thing but it was like $20 or something. So that was nice… I guess

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    21 days ago

    “Spaceballs: the HR Robot”

    Seriously though, who the fuck uses 123456 as the password for anything? The morons pulling shit like this are making bank while the people brought onboard by McDonalds make scratch by comparison, and would be crucified for fucking up even a fraction as much as this. Millions, with six zeroes, millions of applicants’ data stolen from an account with the kind of password that a kid would use on their home computer. Fuck, this makes me so mad, the sheer incompetence.

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      20 days ago

      The bitlocker code for the desktop I sometimes use at work is 123456789. I asked IT who was the idiot that decided that was a good idea. The CTO apparently.

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      20 days ago

      You just know new hires there must have to watch some anodyne video about data security that mentions secure passwords too.

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      I did something kinda similar when I applied. Why put effort into remembering a new password when I was only going to use it once to fill out a job ap? Wants anyone even going to do with my account?

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        Goddamn it man, not the user account password, the fucking admin account password. Did you even read the article? Every single user account’s information was compromised, not one random jerk with 123456 for their password.

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          Not the person you were responding to, but… Did I read the article stuck behind a paywall? No, no I did not

          Edit: ah I see the non paywall link now

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    21 days ago

    A lot of companies use Paradox. They shit canned all their HR down to the bare bones and hired Olivia, which the Paradox recruiter I worked with said is so bad he has to take over answering in chat half the time.

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    21 days ago

    Why do you even need a hiring bot for McDonalds? Maybe for managers but a McJob is a McJob.

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      I help folks with disabilities get jobs, so I’m familiar. I generally avoid fast food for my people, because it’s degrading and no one really wants a McJob. That being said, the bot actually makes it easier to apply, and they immediately schedule an interview…because they don’t care what your resume says and they just need warm bodies to throw at angry customers. Again, I avoid it for my folks wherever possible.

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      21 days ago

      “Hacker” doesn’t always imply one acting with malicious intent.

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        If the 90s taught me anything, it’s that hacking is done exclusively on monochrome green monitors, with dos. Except once they hack in, the monitor is full color, and somehow has access to every video camera on the planet. With the ability to enhsnce resolution seemingly to magical levels where you can see a clear reflection in someones pupil.

        ENHANCE!!!

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      21 days ago

      The risk is that some unknown hacker discovered this vulnerability and abused it before the researchers discovered and reported it. It sounds like the company has confirmed that didn’t happen, but they aren’t 100% trustworthy in that regard, simply because they might have missed something.

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        21 days ago

        yeah i know the risk, but the headline implies the data was exposed to a hacker who tried the password 123456 but thats not the case. A security researcher was investigating the application and accessed a test application with the password 123456 then found an API call which exposed the data and then he instantly reported it.

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    Paradox.ai’s chief legal officer, Stephanie King, told WIRED in an interview. “We own this.”

    I didn’t know Stephen King changed gender and is working for AI company.