RE: One reason why firing people via email is a really bad idea

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

  I'm just waiting for the person to send one of these e-mails to the VP's, managers, etc of RadioShack.  Hehehe... A 
disgruntled employee could fire the whole lot of them simply by spoofing a return address.... See how they like it....

 I am not a number!  I am a human being!
 Sorry, you work for RadioShack, apparently they feel you are, indeed, a number.


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Alex Eckelberry
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:08 PM
To: Richard M. Smith; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] One reason why firing people via email is a really bad idea

This is so asinine.  It's unreal.  

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:46 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] One reason why firing people via email is a really bad
idea

I wonder if any of the folks at Radio Shack who got fired in this manner
proceeded to "fire" fellow employees by resending the termination email
message they got with a fake return address.  Hitting an internal email
list could really make for a mess.

Richard

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RadioShack lays off employees via e-mail
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_on_hi_te/radioshack_layoffs_1 

Wed Aug 30, 12:52 PM ET 

FORT WORTH, Texas - RadioShack Corp. followed through on its announced
plans to cut about 400 jobs, but the electronics retailer has been
forced on the defensive about its method of notifying laid-off employees
by e-mail. 

Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters received an e-mail Tuesday
morning telling them they were being dismissed immediately.

"The work force reduction notification is currently in progress," the
notice stated. "Unfortunately your position is one that has been
eliminated."

Company officials had told employees in a series of meetings that layoff
notices would be delivered electronically, spokeswoman Kay Jackson said.
She said employees were invited to ask questions before Tuesday's
notification on a company intranet site.

...

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