Would add that this extremely applies to e.g. "Hey I've got an idea for a new company; can I run it by you?" Keep everyone's lawyers happy. Transfer any conversations outside of work to personal machines, personal time, personal relationships.https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1202679459729563658 …
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Believe me I understand the degree to which there are shades-of-grey here because of the nature of the industry, the fluidity where previous employers are future customers, etc etc etc, but you do not want to plant a landmine deep in your corporate history.
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(This is particularly insidious failure mode because it only matters if you're successful but in the case where you are successful and it matters it *matters quite a bit*.)
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Additional public service message from the former Japanese salaryman: If you tell an employee of X something which is compromising to your interests, the likelihood of X learning that goes up with the severity of how bad of an ideal it was to tell them.
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This is particularly true if e.g. you just involved the employee of X in a crime and that employee has a legal obligation to report crimes and to not tell criminals they are reporting. Among many, many other ways for that to not work out well for you.
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