Activision Tried to Have Its Employees' Computers Hacked

[Vivi22]

And suddenly none of their employees trust each other. Great atmosphere for working together you've just created Activision!

We are talking about a company who's CEO is proud of trying to instill a culture of fear in his employees. Creating a good work environment isn't really on the agenda.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

A newspaper claims a man testified to something and not a one of you in here even tried to remain objective?

"I read it on the internet! Activision is bad!"

First of all, you have no idea if the newspaper is accurate. You have no idea if the man is telling the truth (not like people lie in court, am I right?"). You know nothing at all of the circumstances.

Jesus Christ, people. You read something posted in an internet forum and roll over on command.

I hate this place some times.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

And suddenly none of their employees trust each other. Great atmosphere for working together you've just created Activision!

This is what crossed my mind now as well. If I worked at Activision I wouldn't trust a single soul after hearing about this. I'd probably quit, actually.

You see folks, when you buy Activision games, you're supporting this kind of behavior. And now you know it. So stop buying their games.

 

[Latenz1134]

Not even Cerberus would do this

control chips sure..mabye the odd assasinsation..but not THIS

Hehe, yeah. Only the truly evil could attempt such a devious, back-stabbing plan.

 

[Rottweiler]

Ahem...to be fair:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deep_Freeze

"Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is the codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955?56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. Given the continuing and constant US presence in Antarctica since that date, "Operation Deep Freeze" has come to be used as a general term for US operations in that continent, and in particular for the regular missions to resupply US Antarctic bases, coordinated by the United States military."


Now, mind you this wasn't hugely secret, and it was in the Antarctic. But still.

 

[cefm]

I just love the juxtaposition of a tech company's leadership not understanding tech, and the company's lawyer not understanding the applicable laws.

Either: A) the information on the company's network, servers, computers, etc. belongs to the company and therefore they can just TAKE it without any need for secrecy (ie. Bob I need you to turn your company provided laptop in immediately); or B) the information they were looking for was personal private information and they're asking the in-house IT chief to commit a rash of crimes and civil offenses (and they're guilty of conspiracy). There is no inbetween.

But instead they decided to act like a bunch of damn fools.

 

[antipunt]

Dammit, I'm telling you.

It's always those ninjas!

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Told not to "worry about the repercussions of [his] actions," Fenady tried to hire an outside company, InGuardians, to perform the task, but the company apparently couldn't get past the "legal hurdles" the operation presented.

I'm very disapointed that they had to outsource this. Do Activision really not have their own cybernetically enhanced agents on the payroll to handle this kind of thing?

I bet EA does. They put a lot more work into maintaining their image as an Evil Mega-Corpation.

Yeah. That company didn't answer to the call of duty.

OT: I really want to know more about this escapist barbecue.

 

[EHKOS]

Of course! This is why COD is the way it is! Activision believes its own bullshit.

 

[Snotnarok]

Multibillion dollar company, and they're stooping to jackassery. They're so paranoid and so scared they're literally doing whatever they can to screw their employees over. Not to mention what they did to the CoD team after they made them more money than any game ever, they weren't going to get their royalties ...unless they stuck around and helped with the next one.

 

[Varil]

Activision being villainous? Yawn. Wake me up when something new happens.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I love the idea of grown men creating names and operations for something like this. Did they have walkie-talkies from the toy shop and codenames as well?

Yeah it's hilarious. All the more funny that they failed to do it too. Like they couldn't even manage to get on two guys computers in a building that they owned...

lolol.

 

[disappointed]

I love the idea of grown men creating names and operations for something like this. Did they have walkie-talkies from the toy shop and codenames as well?

Yeah it's hilarious. All the more funny that they failed to do it too. Like they couldn't even manage to get on two guys computers in a building that they owned...

The whole thing is just crying out to be made into a sitcom. I know there's writers around here - get to work!

 

[Auesis]

Facepalm. That is all.

 

[Farther than stars]

Is it just me, or does 'Operation Icebreaker' sound like a cool (See what I did there?) code-name for a secret freshers party for university students?

Or maybe what they call a mixer at the CIA; you know, the kinda party where they can exchange code-names and background information.