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It wasn't likely to be so much "poor security" as it was likely to be a weakly protected account: a shared ID for everyone or credentials sitting in plain view.
by ax0n 17y ago
It wasn't likely to be so much "poor security" as it was likely to be a weakly protected account: a shared ID for everyone or credentials sitting in plain view.
- joe_the_user 17y agoWhat isn't "poor security" about "a weakly protected account: a shared ID for everyone or credentials sitting in plain view." When access to other people's stuff is controlled by a given account, unless that there is good protections on every level, you're in trouble, you have poor security.
- ax0n 17y agoYou implied blame at the provider level. We might as well run a headline saying "Security flaw to blame for rash of area burglaries" when said security flaw was the failure to lock the front door.