The Tech Worker Handbook
This seems pretty fluffy. I read through the &quot;Legal Handbook&quot; and it doesn&#x27;t seem as much like a handbook as it does a long article about what it&#x27;s like to be a whistleblower, along with some very high level stuff about what it&#x27;s like to engage a lawyer.<p>Like, a really basic thing here is that the legal advice starts by asking people to evaluate whether the misconduct they&#x27;re thinking about violates laws. But it provides little guidance on what those laws might be. Obviously, they&#x27;d say that the first step here is to retain counsel. But that&#x27;s an expensive and difficult first step, and more workers will need to qualify what they&#x27;re observing carefully before taking that step.<p>Did anyone else read this more closely and reach a different conclusion?<p>The security stuff seems especially weak. Like, basic things you&#x27;d want to see headlined are the types of corpsec measures that large tech companies have deployed to trace leaks, and what they&#x27;re likely to find if they image all the devices your contract with them allows them to image.<p>A much more fundamental problem I have with this &quot;handbook&quot; is that it seems geared towards getting people to leak things to the press and regulators. But that&#x27;s not the limit of what tech workers can do to respond; a simple thing that the handbook doesn&#x27;t talk much about is &quot;when to quit&quot;, let alone when and how to engage in concerted action with other team members, and what the risks&#x2F;benefits of that are.