FromOmelas

They have the secret codes to MITM (intercept, inspect, alter and forge) any communication if they manage to place themselves between you and a party you trust.

How would you decide what is legitimate ?

Better would be a "this site is suspiciously new" warning in browsers.

At $WORK, newly registered sites are blocked by default by the network appliance.

often they're trading things with externalities

rather then ban, I would prefer posts/comments are labeled as such.

with features:

- ability to hide AI labeled replies (by default)

- assign lower weight when appropriate

- if a user is suspected to be AI-generated, retroactively label all their replies as "suspected AI"

- in addition to downvote/upvote, a "I think this is AI" counter

the "If you owe the bank 1M, you have a problem. If you owe the bank 1B, the bank has a problem" adagium scaled up ?

The 250bn figure is one pushed by the private owners, trying to defend their high yields. It's likely inflated with bonuses and short term schemes to juice returns. Meanwhile, they've extracted 85bn in dividends since privatization began. Privatizing them cost approx 7.6bn - that's a 12x return over less then 40 years. Pretty nice if you can get it.

Not if they might become a competitor, or thrive (proving that the sale was a good idea). Better to keep them weak and likely to fail.

Sweden is part of the expanded 5 eyes (now 14 eyes). As a workaround for restrictions on domestic spying, they subcontract their dirty work to each other. Hence, you can expect the US to assist in pressuring them (ostensibly on behalf of Sweden)

No, that's not right. Public health insurance in the EU does not use that concept. Participating insurance companies are not allowed to set rates that way, since it doesn't serve the public good.

presumably it has a semantic model of sorts, defining intrinsic relationships between entities (parent-child, composed-of, sibling-of, and so on)

A bit similar how certain joins in SQL can be very straightforward with the "USING" clause, or when it can rely on extra information such as analytic views to derive materialized views (vendor specific)

Its support and security posture could very well be better than average. Looking a other breaches (Qlik Attunity, Microsoft AAD, ...) indicates that being better then average is not enough if you're a sufficiently attractive target.

I'm not sure it does, perhaps it violates the spirit but not the letter.

You need a way to give your employees access to customer data; for support cases. So you build a "request access" form in your ITSM. Now you can tick off every box related to certification: There is a process. Only authorized persons have access. Every aspect of it can be audited.

Later, perhaps sales people (the 1000's of new joiners) start using it as well for lead generation. It's a lot easier to sell if you know how your product is used by other companies in the same industry.

Much later, someone's account is compromised, makes the same requests and it gets waved through. Why wouldn't it ? It is a valid request made by a current employee of the company. What other criteria would apply ? This is not a bank.

No, that sounds about right. This is a new, agile, cloud-first company that grew very quickly and has faced significant turnover. You don't get such growth by doing everything right.

Looking at linked-in, the unlucky employee could be someone in a sales role, with only 7 months of tenure. Every company has a few sysadmins with a scary amount of reach, but that's not what happened here.

Edit: A ServiceNow access request flow with poor internal controls would explain it.

3. A reversion to in-person interaction for anything important (exams, certifications, payments, loan applications, ...)

Society benefited from a productivity gain by moving everything online, in a (relatively) high-trust environment. That is now becoming more expensive (due to higher % of frauds), or even infeasible.

So, a drag on economic growth for years to come.