eBay’s harassment campaign against the couple, David and Ina Steiner, stretched for 18 days in August 2019 and was led by the company’s former senior director of safety and security, Jim Baugh. It started when then-CEO Devin Wenig and then-chief communications officer Steven Wymer decided to “take down” the Steiners after growing frustrated with their coverage of eBay in a newsletter called EcommerceBytes.
Something I see working in infosec is that there are some people who get into it for the power, thinking they’re basically cops. This being run by their Director of Safety and Security reeks of that kind of cop-mindset.
Very close, although it seems like in this case it was the other way around:
Ex-cop, went into “private security” to keep copping around, not exactly infosec.