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Comment by roosterIllusi0n | Hacker News Reader

Sounds like a crime. They took credentials that was not theirs and used them to gain unauthorized access and then stole all the content.

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The article isn't clear on if the credentials were theirs or not, or how Rockstar management obtained them. It is possible that Rockstar management simply signed up for a Discord account and went through the process to request access, which was then granted to them by the Discord server admins. Since the server admins used the company Slack to verify that folks requesting to join were employees, it seems quite plausible that is what happened. But the details aren't really there in the article.

I hope the union admins weren't foolish enough to let in management that way. My best faith assumption is that the mole got in, grabbed the content, and shared their account with management.

That still feels like a form of entrapment, though. Unless this story is fuzzy and the mole themselves simply shared the chat logs hemselves. But the story makes it sound like the Abid Ansari himself got in.

Entrapment is usually defined as when the investigator encourages the accused to commit the crime, in such a way that they were not already predispositioned to do so. If the management employee encouraged others on the forum to share company secrets, that might be entrapment, but simply being there and catching them in the act is not.

I suppose more information will come out in court, if the matter is settled beforehand.

All you'd have to do is grab a PAT from a terminated employee's workstation and you'd have access to anything they did, in their name, until it expires.

That would be stealing credentials, they were arguing they might have obtained them legitimately.

I, too, would argue I obtained them legitimately, by giving Claude access to the filesystem image and asking it questions it could only answer by doing exactly this.

Another good reason why you shouldn't use company property for personal stuff, especially not for union organizing activities.

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