Twitter has become a cesspool, but LinkedIn remains a useful place to call out bad behaviour by companies. https://www.linkedin.com/company/zscaler/ - but don't "Message" them, instead write a post on your timeline @mentioning them. (We just had this at $WORK and it's a stupid way to get a company's attention, but it does work, to a point.) or, 1-408-533-0288, they also publish phone numbers on their website, but be prepared to waste a bunch of time. Also, send me the raw details, I may be able to verify and find an internal contact via my (human) networking network. -Adam -----Original Message----- From: Eduard Hiebert <eduardhiebert@eduardhiebert.com> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2026 1:06 AM To: roundtable@muug.ca; Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> Subject: [RndTbl] Re: is zscaler9 a thing here? On 2026-04-09 11:19 p.m., Trevor Cordes wrote:
I'm miffed by abuse/stupidity when it doesn't cost anything but CPU cycles, but I'm extra miffed when possible abuse/stupidity will cost the club triple (plus!).
Ideas before they get the banhammer?
At the literal technological level regarding "is zscaler9 a thing here" is way outside my knowledge base until between the three of you (Trevor, Adam & Sean) with my thanks collectively put the pieces together. For many years now, I've come to recognize that at the global level we are into a technological arms race... having used computers for over 40 years when all I had was a slide rule at University and at the time my grandfather made ready use of the Abacus he himself had made, when he together, with my father were filling out their paper-based income tax. Simply put, where into a multidimensional global technological arms race where individual bad actors have ever smaller buttons to push, with ever more ease that unleash ever more powerful tools. Just think over my lifetime on a farm I have hauled grain with a manual steering wheel pickup truck and today it's common practice for many farmers to have multiple 30 wheeled automated this and that B-trains doing in a day what we only completed over many years! My point? Ever heard of a SLAPP suit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) ? If we see that as SLAPP-suit 1.0; is not the ubiquitous multitiered answering machine many companies have that hold a human person on the line while a machine tells us how much they appreciate us having patience until an overworked, under resourced and underpaid offshore employee will be happy to address our issue in practice a SLAPP-suit 2.0 and AI 3.0 never mind the many other tools available? I've been told MUUG is not a political forum so will leave aside some of the political organising I'm spending serious time on, however every one of our MPs over my lifetime, metaphorically are busy driving a 30 wheeler and have not enough hours in the year to be accessible to all their constituent as they do their party leaders bidding. In short, if we don't start hanging together more, as the adage goes, we will all hang together, thanks to someone with but CPU cycles, will cost the club triple (plus!) However the solution is within reach when we altogether in any discrete voting district speak with a united voice, in the the accumulated unified voice of 1 Person = 1 Vote outweigh the few who operate on $1 = 1 Vote as in a few CPU cycles extort without limit... _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca