Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/23/former-ebay-workers-to-plead-guilty-to-sending-live-spiders-and-cockroaches-to-couple-that-ran-newsletter-critical-of-ebay.html
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An internal investigation was launched after San Jose, California-based eBay was notified by law enforcement of “suspicious actions by its security personnel,” company officials wrote in a prepared statement. The employees were ultimately fired, the company said.
Meaning disband your dirty tricks squad before they commit federal felonies, not after.
Could be worse.
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I’d read about this previously, so I find it pretty galling to see all these lazy copy paste snip re-posts to just regurgitate the headline characterizing them as ‘employees’ or ‘workers,’ which really downplays the seriousness of this effort. This wasn’t a prank by bored factory folks. This is senior management in a very specific department with very specific targets:
Popp was a senior manager of global intelligence at eBay; Gilbert was senior manager of special operations for eBay’s Global Security Team; Stockwell was manager of eBay’s Global Intelligence Center; and Zea was an eBay contractor who worked as an intelligence analyst in the Global Intelligence Center.
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"Oy Bay!"
Yikes!
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