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Comment by parhurs | Hacker News Reader

That's quite the job title. Can someone elucidate what duties come with it?

At large companies like MS, Google, or FB you can roughly divide security into "infosec" and physical security. The latter org will run everything from the door guards and video/badge infra to executive protection services and employee investigations. I am guessing that Mr. Katz runs this org at Google.

Here's at least one of the job duties for Katz: https://www.rt.com/usa/google-bartender-phone-barton-523/

Thanks for sharing.

Sound like a total dick. Glad this wasn't a bar in Florida where you can conceal carry. Dude comes to some establishment and threatens employees and owner with criminal prosecution and filing criminal charges, then when they want to return the phone to the police, he would rather have it returned to them...

What a dick.

You shouldn't have been downvoted for that comment. According to the Wired article that broke the story (which RT apparently cut-and-pasted from without proper attribution):

https://www.wired.com/2012/10/drinking-establishment-check-h...

this guy apparently was being an all-out, stereotypical SV dickhead, blatantly threatening a mere bartender (Barton) with criminal charges ("like I was in any trouble", as Barton says) -- just so he could save his own ass back at the Googleplex.

Here he is describing his job. Makes for ironic reading in context of this lawsuit:

http://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/google-s-brian-ka...

Here is what someone with that job title would do at Hooli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snBl7KE0bSs

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