11 comments

  • theseanz 29 minutes ago

    Hey! As a 46 year old I am offended by this - I am definitely not Gen X. We’re a weird X/Millenial hybrid I’ve seen referred to as Xennials.

    Also F ZScaler - we use this officially sanctioned MTM attack at work and all it does is make my job harder.

      zetsurin 17 minutes ago

      you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.

      croisillon 6 minutes ago

      ngl as a 45 y.o. Gen Y i was not so surprised to read what stupid things 46 y.o. Gen X do

      SoftTalker 25 minutes ago

      People on the borderlines often are overlooked. I'm an old GenX, a few years too young to be a Boomer, and even the younger Boomers grew up with a quite different experience than the mainline Boomer generation. And I was already an adult and married by the main part of the GenX era.

        ourmandave 17 minutes ago

        Dividing generations across decades might work for marketing to them in general, but it's otherwise about as useful as horoscopes and the BMI scale.

          saalweachter 5 minutes ago

          Duodecades are superior to decades, and we can take overlapping pairs of duodecades as "generations" to solve the dividing line problem.

          Duodecades:

            * 1968-1980
            * 1980-1992
            * 1992-2004
            * 2004-2016
            * 2016-2028
          
          Overlapping generations:

            * GenX: 1968-1992
            * Millennial: 1980-2004
            * GenZ: 1992-2016
  • Lucasoato 23 minutes ago

    Companies hope that training will protect them from cyber threats, while ignoring that their most vulnerable employees are the ones that lost the motivation to care about their job.

      calgoo 14 minutes ago

      Training is basically just for legal and insurance reasons... If not there would be no reason to do yearly training of the same bs courses.

  • neilv 21 minutes ago

    > Zscaler says they combine information from compromised systems with publicly available data to map reporting lines and identify the employees most likely to influence a company's response.

    And commercially-available data: enterprise salespeople, for example, can buy this intel from data brokers (directly, or with layered services catering to sales funnels specifically).

    It's another way that surveillance capitalism can be a national security threat against the US. You have countless US companies collectively mapping out people networks and assembling often intimate dossiers on individuals... and saving international organized crime and geopolitical adversaries a ton of work, which they might not have the resources to otherwise do.

      SoftTalker 17 minutes ago

      They've learned from how real businesses operate. Ever talked to a salesperson? Notice how much the initial conversation is geared to trying to figure out whether you have any real purchasing authority, and who does if it isn't you?

      calgoo 13 minutes ago

      So why is this only a threat to US companies and not for businesses in other parts of the world?