What Happened at Uber?

Malicious Life

Technology

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, Joe Sullivan, former CISO of Facebook, was at the peak of his career. As Uber's new CISO, he and his team had just successfully prevented data from a recent breach from leaking to the internet. But less than a year later, Sullivan was unexpectedly fired from Uber, and three years later, the US Department of Justice announced criminal charges against him.

So, what happened at Uber?

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0:00.0	It's worst nightmare.
0:05.0	It's every executive's worst nightmare.
0:09.0	It was a period in which I didn't know whether I would go to prison or not and the government
0:14.5	was arguing that I should go I think they were initially arguing for three years.
0:18.4	In 2016 Joe Sullivan was at the peak of his career. He had been eBay's senior director of trust and safety, created Facebook's Bug Bounty Program as Chief Security Officer and was appointed by President Obama to the
0:35.2	Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Then within a few months
0:40.8	everything fell apart.
0:43.8	And so I researched prisons and evaluated and talked to my family about,
0:48.3	like, if I was at this prison,
0:50.0	would you be able to visit me?
0:51.0	You know, like, all the reality and how do you stay safe in a prison
0:55.4	environment and how do you keep your mind sharp and your body sharp and you know, like everything about it I just I did my homework.
1:09.0	How does someone go from being highly successful CISO to contemplating life in prison.
1:16.4	In Joe's case, it all started with a phone call from one of Silicon Valley's most notorious
1:22.2	companies, known for its problematic culture and business ethics. Hi, I'm Ryan Levy. Welcome to Cyber Reasons malicious life. Joe Sullivan was born in 1968 to a painter and sculptor father and a mystery writer mother. Maybe that's why his teenage
2:07.3	rebellion took an unusual direction. I had it in my head from the time I was pretty young that I wanted to be a government lawyer and when I think back it's kind of odd because I'd never met a lawyer.
2:19.0	So I don't know why but I had it in my head that I wanted to be a government lawyer and so that was my focus.
2:24.0	After graduating from law school, Sullivan spent eight years at the Department of Justice.
2:29.7	Back then, in the 1980s, personal computers were still rare in government offices.
2:35.4	Sullivan, who used email regularly and knew how to type, quickly became known as the resident
2:41.7	computer whiz, which placed him on a unique career path.
2:46.0	And I convinced the Department of Justice to give me a direct internet connection to my office which was unheard of in 1995 when I did that and
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