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If any FAANG employee falls for this, it's a good way for the company to weed them out, and terminate them for-cause.

You might run this as a honeypot for corrupt, dumb employees. Make it more easily accessible than the outreaches from criminal enterprises.




I really hate to phrase it like this, but i don't see another way...

if a FAANG employee would be considered dumb when signing up for this... how can this not have crossed OPs mind when spending his/her time building this platform (as an ex-FAANG)?


> how can this not have crossed OPs mind when spending his/her time building this platform

You mean the two engineers on loan to the global investigations team at $techcompany?


I'd think they would make this offer seem less sketchy... facebook & co know better than anyone how to make bad & evil stuff sound desirable. It's in their DNA.

If this was actually a honeypot, i would have thought it would seem less like a "sign up for your own lawsuit"-form kinda site.

Maybe they use the same technique as the "prince of nigeria" kind of emails & porn ads being made so bad on purpose, to cater to a specific target group... but i just never fully understood how this kind of stuff works out better than... just actually making something better...


I'm surprised no one has considered that this is a way to get people talking more than it is a way to get accounts unsuspended...


I didn't consider it because i couldn't think of what it would be that they want people to talk about. What do you think about? Who made this for achieving what?


Can you really say this after it generated 400 comments on the topic amongst the people closest to the issue?




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