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> But I guarantee you that most people reading this work at companies that are similarly vulnerable.

We hold Equifax to a higher standard because of the nature of the data that it collects.

> Everybody is insecure everywhere always

Some of us think that's neither necessary nor inevitable.

> If we can't get it right, why do you want the execs' heads to roll? Are you sure you won't be next on the chopping block?

In some professions, including many engineering ones, gross negligence is punished with the removal of one's ability to practice professionally. It's imaginable that if there were consequences for one's actions, things wouldn't be "insecure everywhere always".

Really, how am I still finding people taking time out to defend the incredible ineptitude of a privacy-oblivious company in a hated industry?

parent kibwen 9 years ago

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