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Wow...this was the company that was founded by the legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick (RIP)
for shame.
It's good we have "Knewbies" in a sandbox when they start.
attention all companies: please stop making pet names for your employees, it's weird 
I consider myself a newbee.
The scam is that they are actually doing the work, getting paid well
Listen. I know that there are some really shitty stuff going on in North Korea, and very real threats that their government is capable of, and it sucks for the people living there who have to do this work under threat of death.
But if you say that "the scam" is they're doing work and receiving full pay for work done, I'm going to make fun of you. Oh no, someone outside of the West did work and was slightly less exploited by capital than usual in the process. Horror upon horror.
You cut off the second part of that sentence. The scam isn't doing the work from a different location, the scam is that they're using the money to fund North Korea. This isn't "Kim gets a job online" it's "Kim is a state actor that is a security risk at any moment and meanwhile causing KnowBe4 to send money to a sanctioned country."
Yeah, they seem to be downplaying the malware bit in that paragraph.