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Adrian Sol
Daily Stormer
December 18, 2017
You want a life of adventure, excitement and intrigue? Apply for a job at Uber today!
I had no idea Uber was being run like a James Bond-style shadowy international organization. They’ve got agents all over doing cloak and dagger shit to keep tabs on politicians, business rivals, trade unions and anyone else who might screw with their business.
Pretty cool, tbh.
It almost makes up for all their cucky shilling for DACA babies. But then again, the founder is a Canadian, so you can’t expect that just because he’s basically running a criminal taxi syndicate, he wouldn’t also feel bad for brown people.
Last month, details emerged about a secretive unit within Uber dedicated to stealing trade secrets, surveilling competitors, using self-destructing messages, and dodging government regulators. The accusations came from a former member of Uber’s security team, Ric Jacobs, whose 37-page letter detailing all of Uber’s shady behavior was sent to Uber’s management earlier this year. Prior to today, only snippets of the letter have been read aloud in court. Now, a redacted copy of the letter is public as part of the ongoing litigation between Uber and Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet. And it’s a doozy.
Self-destructing messages!
How do I apply for this?
The so-called “Jacobs letter” has become the latest twist in the high-profile case between two tech giants over the future of self-driving cars. Its incendiary content caps off a disastrous year for Uber, which has suffered a series of self-inflicted scandals that has upended its senior leadership and raised the prospect of criminal penalties.
At first glance, the Jacobs letter an incredibly detailed accounting of multiple unlawful actions by the ride-hail company. He alleges that Uber’s secretive Strategic Services Group (SSG) “frequently engaged in fraud and theft, and employed third-party vendors to obtain unauthorized data or information.” He also accuses Uber security officers of “hacking” and “destruction of evidence related to eavesdropping against opposition groups.” And he says Uber’s ex-CEO Travis Kalanick knew about a lot of it.
They’ve got hackers, too!
No good shadow organization lacks 1337 hackers.
Another Uber employee, Nicholas Gicinto, along with SSG, conducted “virtual operations impersonating protesters, Uber partner-drivers, and taxi operators.”
Disguises and infiltration!
These Uber security employees went to great lengths to hide their surveillance activities from the authorities, Jacobs says. They used computers not purchased by Uber that ran on Mi-Fi devices, so the traffic wouldn’t appear on Uber’s network. They also used virtual public networks and “non-attributable architecture of contracted Amazon Web Services” to further conceal their efforts, Jacobs alleges. Who were they surveilling? Jacobs says SSG’s targets included “politicians, regulators, law enforcement, taxi organizations, and labor unions in, at a minimum, the US.”
Sounds like they’ve got pretty much everything covered.
“Nothing is outside our reach.” -Uber
And then there was Uber’s innocuously named Marketplace Analytics team. Jacobs says this group was responsible for “acquiring trade secrets, codebase, and competitive intelligence… from major ridesharing competitors globally.” According to Jacobs, Marketplace Analytics impersonated riders and drivers on competitor platforms, hacked into competitor networks, and conducted unlawful wiretapping.
This stuff is pretty nuts. But I guess if you’re going to be running a multinational corporation, this is the way to go. This whole thing is about a lawsuit between Alphabet (Google) and Uber, who are business competitors scrambling to be the first to bring self-driving cars to the market. There’s no doubt that whatever corporation will win this race is going to make billions and acquire immense power.
Self-driving vehicles have huge potential to transform society. For example, if an AI is driving, speed limits may no longer need to be enforced, allowing much faster land transportation. Within cities, the cost of a taxi may come down to the point where it no longer makes sense to own your own car.
So it doesn’t surprise me that these companies are doing all sorts of underhanded stuff to ensure they come out on top. I’d bet Google has a similar agency doing much the same, although better at not getting caught.
