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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9288200" data-attributes="member: 18">...I...I'm genuinely confused that you would even think that. Are you messing with me lol?A &quot;geeky kid&quot; would under no circumstances be allowed to be hiring a security company to investigate an incident for a billion-dollar corporation. The number of levels of approval that would have to go through would be significant. I've worked in multiple places exactly as corporate as WotC seems to be and the idea that anyone not management would be making decisions on that is just wild. There would already be a procedure in place, and it would be followed, and I rock solid guarantee actual experienced managers not &quot;geeky kids&quot; would be decision-making. Hell, if &quot;geeky kids&quot; are making decisions like that, WotC is sunk, man, this is the least of their problems.This isn't like, some mom n' pop shop or a dodgy start-up. This is a super-corporate billion dollar operation.Honestly? I'd have had a lot more respect for that, though given my background perhaps I'm biased. At the very least mailing a Letter Before Claim or sending a process server (I say mailing because I am under the perhaps mistaken and unresearched belief that it is illegal to just put something in someone's mailbox in the US as they are USPS property). They seem to have skipped over that, given he says they didn't, and WotC didn't say they did. This is also part of why I think it's perhaps overreach from the security rather than some mustachio'd WotC exec in an olde-timey white suit going &quot;SEND IN THE PINKERTONS!!!&quot; whilst chewing on a cigar and slamming a fist on their desk - unfortunately the de facto impact is very similar!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9288200, member: 18"] ... I... I'm genuinely confused that you would even think that. Are you messing with me lol? A "geeky kid" would under no circumstances be allowed to be [I]hiring[/I] a security company to investigate an incident for a billion-dollar corporation. The number of levels of approval that would have to go through would be significant. I've worked in multiple places exactly as corporate as WotC seems to be and the idea that anyone not management would be making decisions on that is just wild. There would already be a procedure in place, and it would be followed, and I rock solid guarantee actual experienced managers not "geeky kids" would be decision-making. Hell, if "geeky kids" are making decisions like that, WotC is sunk, man, this is the least of their problems. This isn't like, some mom n' pop shop or a dodgy start-up. This is a super-corporate billion dollar operation. Honestly? I'd have had a lot more respect for that, though given my background perhaps I'm biased. At the very least mailing a Letter Before Claim or sending a process server (I say mailing because I am under the perhaps mistaken and unresearched belief that it is illegal to just put something in someone's mailbox in the US as they are USPS property). They seem to have skipped over that, given he says they didn't, and WotC didn't say they did. This is also part of why I think it's perhaps overreach from the security rather than some mustachio'd WotC exec in an olde-timey white suit going "SEND IN THE PINKERTONS!!!" whilst chewing on a cigar and slamming a fist on their desk - unfortunately the[I] de facto[/I] impact is very similar! [/QUOTE]

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