“The company prevents you from signing up for the app”
App operator “Not available because there is no user data itself”
Articles posted by public corporations and netizens who are estimated to be public servants on the blinds of the anonymous community app for workers on the 11th. Photo = Blind app capture
“LH was large, and the majority of people were working and flirting.”
“Why do you only say what to LH? If GH was more severe, it was severe, but not less.”
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This is a post posted by netizens who are estimated to be public corporations and public servants that were posted on the blinds of the anonymous community app for workers on the 11th. One netizen said, “When I was an LH experience-based intern, it was common for regular workers to break the ledger with corporate cards and come out and eat snacks during work. It was very natural for even those who mainly do business affairs to use a law car. I felt that I was playing with the national blood.” And exposed.
Recently, as the blind app has been used as a window of whistleblowing at work, revelations are becoming a hot topic every day. The blind app was widely known in the wake of the’peanut turnaround’ incident by former vice president of Korean Air Cho Hyun-ah in 2013, and recently, LH’s real estate speculation-related articles from the controversy over the payment of incentives and personnel evaluation have attracted public attention.
Image = Blind homepage capture
“The company prevents you from signing up for the app”
According to the information technology (IT) industry on the 12th, as of the end of last month, the blind app has 4.4 million, 3.2 million in Korea and 1.2 million in the United States. It is an anonymous community app founded in 2013 by Moon Sung-wook from Naver and Timon, and is headquartered in Silicon Valley, a rare domestic startup.
Blind apps can communicate anonymously with not only their affiliated companies, but also affiliates and employees in the same industry. It started gaining popularity as a community where employees freely deal with topics such as job change, salary, and organizational culture that they are interested in. In particular, it is gaining more attention recently as it is used as a window for employees to accuse unfair things they have experienced in the company.
Image = Blind homepage capture
This year, a post in the form of’will’ was posted by an estimated Kakao employee pointing out a problem in the in-house personnel evaluation, creating controversy, and the incentive issue triggered by SK hynix was not only for other affiliates in the SK group, but also for Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. It has formed a lot of public opinion in spreading it to Pangyo IT companies.
In particular, recently, articles related to allegations of land speculation by employees of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) have become a hot topic. As of this month, as a real-time popular company in the app, LH has been ranked first. As it is a social event that causes public anger, some subscribers are worried that they may be’defeated personally’ by the company by writing a post. Some subscribers say, “Is it really anonymity?” “If you post something on the blind app these days, measures will come out with an official letter” “There is a theory that the boss collects and receives blind posts every morning” “The company blocks blind app subscriptions”, etc. Security They even raised issues about sex.
App operator “Not available because there is no user data itself”
Team Blind, which operates blind apps, stressed that it provides strong anonymity guarantees, saying, “Security is the key service.” An official from Team Blind said, “Security is the basis of service survival and is the top priority,” he said. “From the beginning of the business, we put a lot of effort into putting security more important than business expansion or finding a profit model.”
The blind app is operated in the form of receiving a blind account after first authenticating with the company email. In order to ensure anonymity, Team Blind uses the company email only for the purpose of identifying the incumbent, and then destroys the link with the blind app account. The blind account alone is that no one can identify a user. For this reason, it is impossible to find the password or view the records of the e-mail owner. The official said, “We have applied for patents related to one-way encryption in Korea, the United States, and Japan.” I chose.”
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Until now, blind apps have been used as a window to improve bad habits and wrong practices in the company, but some voices claiming dysfunctions such as the risk of manipulation and excessive representation. Some argue that retirees’ accounts can also be maintained within the app, raising questions about reliability.
In fact, when a recent article’I don’t care about it inside’ was posted on the LH land speculation situation, LH released a press release on the 10th and said, “According to the blind operation structure, accounts of dismissals, dismissals, and retirees may be maintained in addition to current jobs. It is highly likely that the post author is not an LH employee,” he said. “We plan to take strong legal action against former and current LH employees who have spread false information.”
According to TeamBlind, currently, the blind app is managing user accounts through a separate’resignation processing page’. An official from Team Blind explained, “The account is organized weekly and monthly through the’Resignation Handling Page’ for the classification of incumbent and retirees, and if mail authentication fails through security logic, it is considered that the company has left and makes it difficult to use the account.” did. “Recently, regarding the LH incident, there has been no request for disclosure of user information from any external agency,” he emphasized. “Even if we request information, we do not have any data to provide itself.”
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