I appreciate the perspective. If you're telling me I worked there at literally the worst possible time frame, I'd believe it. I may have my experience skewed through the perspective of Nick's influence, but tbh many of…
Oh god don't remind me about Trace. I had to deal with the Controller side of that and it was a damn nightmare. He basically dictated that you couldn't use any kind or repo+deployment pipeline except for what his team…
> Nick was hired out of his job at Amazon because he was supposed to be the AWS expert. This always cracked me up. From what I can tell, he was a mid level dev on the Alexa web api team. He knew AWS sure, but he did not…
I've since heard that the repo has been taken down and all the keys rotated, but just kinda makes you wonder how many APs and switches and cloud keys, etc are still out there using compromised keys. Also, even though…
Hoo boy, this is gonna be a fun one. For reference, I spent a year (mid-2018 to mid-2019) running the UniFi Network team and worked with Nick during that time. > * Why was it so easy for a lead engineer to get access to…
> This man was a senior developer Dude, let's not be generous. Could he write code? Yes. But this is a guy who wrote everything in Node, but absolutely _refused_ to use any existing libraries except for ones he…
I mean, I didn't necessarily agree with all of his methods or reasonings on everything, but I've come to realize a lot of times his hands were just as tied as ours. And the draconian surveillance stuff? Yeah, he was…
Heh... no. I quit two years ago, well before all this happened. I have ideas about who this "Adam" is, and I also have some suspicions about who they're accusing as the culprit. But that's all they are. Hunches.
If I can vent for a second, this company has no leadership. None. Things may have changed in 2 years, but I doubt it. I was messaged almost daily by random employees asking wtf was going on with the company. They were…
I'm pretty sure I'm safe. I left as soon as I could (almost 2 years ago) once I realized how institutionally broken the company was.
I mean, don't get me wrong, there absolutely _is_ somebody who's responsible for it, but I wouldn't place any money on Ubiquiti being able to figure out who it really was. They want to brush this under the rug as fast…
> Ubiquiti also hinted it had an idea of who was behind the attack, saying it has “well-developed evidence that the perpetrator is an individual with intricate knowledge of our cloud infrastructure. As we are…
Greed. 100% greed. While I was there, the CEO loved to just fly between offices (randomly) on his private jet. You never knew where he'd pop up, and that put everybody on edge, because when he was unhappy he tended to…
This is not surprising to me at all. IMO, the CEO had a bit of a Steve Jobs hero-worship complex, but only all the bad parts. I can absolutely see him putting two teams on the same project, and "may the best product…
> can we really trust them absolutely not
I am 100% not surprised. I spent a year working for Ubiquiti, running the Network Controller team. Trust me, this whistle-blower "Adam" (I have a few suspicions of who it actually is), toned it down. The reality is much…
Oh man you have no idea. I spent a year there running the Network Controller team. "Shit show" doesn't even begin to describe it.
I appreciate the perspective. If you're telling me I worked there at literally the worst possible time frame, I'd believe it. I may have my experience skewed through the perspective of Nick's influence, but tbh many of…
Oh god don't remind me about Trace. I had to deal with the Controller side of that and it was a damn nightmare. He basically dictated that you couldn't use any kind or repo+deployment pipeline except for what his team…
> Nick was hired out of his job at Amazon because he was supposed to be the AWS expert. This always cracked me up. From what I can tell, he was a mid level dev on the Alexa web api team. He knew AWS sure, but he did not…
I've since heard that the repo has been taken down and all the keys rotated, but just kinda makes you wonder how many APs and switches and cloud keys, etc are still out there using compromised keys. Also, even though…
Hoo boy, this is gonna be a fun one. For reference, I spent a year (mid-2018 to mid-2019) running the UniFi Network team and worked with Nick during that time. > * Why was it so easy for a lead engineer to get access to…
> This man was a senior developer Dude, let's not be generous. Could he write code? Yes. But this is a guy who wrote everything in Node, but absolutely _refused_ to use any existing libraries except for ones he…
I mean, I didn't necessarily agree with all of his methods or reasonings on everything, but I've come to realize a lot of times his hands were just as tied as ours. And the draconian surveillance stuff? Yeah, he was…
Heh... no. I quit two years ago, well before all this happened. I have ideas about who this "Adam" is, and I also have some suspicions about who they're accusing as the culprit. But that's all they are. Hunches.
If I can vent for a second, this company has no leadership. None. Things may have changed in 2 years, but I doubt it. I was messaged almost daily by random employees asking wtf was going on with the company. They were…
I'm pretty sure I'm safe. I left as soon as I could (almost 2 years ago) once I realized how institutionally broken the company was.
I mean, don't get me wrong, there absolutely _is_ somebody who's responsible for it, but I wouldn't place any money on Ubiquiti being able to figure out who it really was. They want to brush this under the rug as fast…
> Ubiquiti also hinted it had an idea of who was behind the attack, saying it has “well-developed evidence that the perpetrator is an individual with intricate knowledge of our cloud infrastructure. As we are…
Greed. 100% greed. While I was there, the CEO loved to just fly between offices (randomly) on his private jet. You never knew where he'd pop up, and that put everybody on edge, because when he was unhappy he tended to…
This is not surprising to me at all. IMO, the CEO had a bit of a Steve Jobs hero-worship complex, but only all the bad parts. I can absolutely see him putting two teams on the same project, and "may the best product…
> can we really trust them absolutely not
I am 100% not surprised. I spent a year working for Ubiquiti, running the Network Controller team. Trust me, this whistle-blower "Adam" (I have a few suspicions of who it actually is), toned it down. The reality is much…
Oh man you have no idea. I spent a year there running the Network Controller team. "Shit show" doesn't even begin to describe it.