What are peoples thoughts on whistleblowers? Ala Snowdon, Nurses in the NHS, Bankers, people in the military etc.
I turned whistleblower yesterday and I'm already getting messages that the powers that be are going to want my head on a stick before the end of the day.
I can't go into exact details, but I'm a security contractor for a company that does work for the government and utility providers and banks etc. For the last 2 years it's became very clear that because of the shady capitalistic ethos of the company I work for, we've been letting one of the above pay us several million pounds per year for a service to make them safe and secure, immune from terrorist attacks (as best as can be). For the last 2 years, they've taken the money, and all reality, done nothing for it, or very little, and customer is at massive risk, and this particular customer, if they get compromised, their is significant potential for the would be attacker to kill a considerable amount of people from the compromise.
I've tried for 2 years to get the people responsible in the business to do what we're paid to do, and at least give the customer visibility of the issues, and they've deliberately hid the information from them, in fear of the contractual repercussions, that alone.
Yesterday, after the events of this week, I found a way to provide a full report to the customer, and they've gone nuclear. So late yesterday afternoon I've got all sorts of senior directors and senior corporate people crawling all over me trying to find out what the fuck is going on and why I did it.
Did I do the wrong thing? Should I just have kept my down and been complicit? Is whistleblowing wrong?
@dantes I might need some pro bono representation!
I turned whistleblower yesterday and I'm already getting messages that the powers that be are going to want my head on a stick before the end of the day.
I can't go into exact details, but I'm a security contractor for a company that does work for the government and utility providers and banks etc. For the last 2 years it's became very clear that because of the shady capitalistic ethos of the company I work for, we've been letting one of the above pay us several million pounds per year for a service to make them safe and secure, immune from terrorist attacks (as best as can be). For the last 2 years, they've taken the money, and all reality, done nothing for it, or very little, and customer is at massive risk, and this particular customer, if they get compromised, their is significant potential for the would be attacker to kill a considerable amount of people from the compromise.
I've tried for 2 years to get the people responsible in the business to do what we're paid to do, and at least give the customer visibility of the issues, and they've deliberately hid the information from them, in fear of the contractual repercussions, that alone.
Yesterday, after the events of this week, I found a way to provide a full report to the customer, and they've gone nuclear. So late yesterday afternoon I've got all sorts of senior directors and senior corporate people crawling all over me trying to find out what the fuck is going on and why I did it.
Did I do the wrong thing? Should I just have kept my down and been complicit? Is whistleblowing wrong?
@dantes I might need some pro bono representation!
