We didn't have read access until Nick Sharp and his team took over GitHub permissions and gave everyone access. Wonderful security work.
> Oh and then there the whole metrics collection debacle, where the controller basically phoned home about the topology of every network that it managed. Even if you opted out. Opting out just meant they fuzzed your ID so any given record couldn't be linked back to PII. Which may or may not be legal, IANAL.
Nick Sharp was at the core of this too! He built the 'trace' system to collect all of these metrics and had all of these ideas about how to secretly collect the data in ways that would be hard for people to detect.
He pretended to be a principled person who stood for security and privacy, but whenever he saw an opportunity for political gain he abandoned all principles. He was the only person I knew at the company who was enthusiastic about collecting all of that data.