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This tweet from Equifax to a website spoofing the correct website has been up since 6pm last night: https://twitter.com/Equifax/status/910265181976104960 https:

This tweet from Equifax to a website spoofing the correct website has been up since 6pm last night: https://twitter.com/Equifax/status/910265181976104960 https://twitter.com/Equifax/status/910265181976104960 At this point Equifax has repeatedly demonstrated nothing but contempt for people whose information they have compromised. When are the authorities going to padlock their doors and shut down this continuing criminally reckless enterprise?

yebyen 9y ago
It's beginning to look a lot like "retiring" both the CISO and CIO right in the middle of a major security news event... may have been another bad decision! I'm with you, it's more criminal that after all they've flubbed, this company is even still allowed to operate, than that they lost all of our information to begin with. Don't we have at least 3 major credit bureaus? Equifax should be shuttered immediately and with prejudice, the American credit system will be immediately better off and we can all live without this one. Shareholders be damned.
- krallja 9y ago
  Do you think the other two are any better?
  - yebyen 9y ago
    Is that really a question? No, I don't, I consider it to be unauthorized surveillance, but the fact is that Equifax blew this up, and now continues to demonstrate their organizational incompetence, while TransUnion and Experian are not really in the news this week. Our system of credit operates on these bureaus, and we have two others that appear to be functioning properly. If I had one server that was obviously infested with hackers, but two others that were not obviously infested, assuming that I had isolated them properly and they did not have major parts that were in common, I'd start by unplugging the one that was already confirmed to be hacked. I think it works the same way when corporations that surveilled 50% or more of the population demonstrate systematic incompetence basically without remorse, as in this case. They just need to be unplugged, immediately. (I'm not advocating we shut down the entire credit system, in other words, although I am terrified it may yet come to that.)
therealdrag0 9y ago
>Sorry, that page doesn’t exist! What'd the tweet say?
- kmm 9y ago
  [They linked the wrong site](https://web.archive.org/web/20170920143324/https:/twitter.com/Equifax/status/910265181976104960 https://web.archive.org/web/20170920143324/https:/twitter.co...)
nikisweeting 9y ago
Actually they've tweeted the wrong link over 8 times, going all the way back to September 9th: https://twitter.com/MadcapOcelot/status/910533555494760449 https://twitter.com/MadcapOcelot/status/910533555494760449
kbutler 9y ago
> At this point Equifax has repeatedly demonstrated nothing but contempt for people whose information they have compromised. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. They've completely demonstrated incompetence, no contempt needed.
- asmithmd1 9y ago
  I am not sure what you think the definition of contempt is but from Google's definition (and example sentence) it is precisely the word to describe Equifax's behavior: The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. "he showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly"

yebyen 9y ago

It's beginning to look a lot like "retiring" both the CISO and CIO right in the middle of a major security news event... may have been another bad decision! I'm with you, it's more criminal that after all they've flubbed, this company is even still allowed to operate, than that they lost all of our information to begin with. Don't we have at least 3 major credit bureaus? Equifax should be shuttered immediately and with prejudice, the American credit system will be immediately better off and we can all live without this one. Shareholders be damned.

krallja 9y ago
Do you think the other two are any better?
- yebyen 9y ago
  Is that really a question? No, I don't, I consider it to be unauthorized surveillance, but the fact is that Equifax blew this up, and now continues to demonstrate their organizational incompetence, while TransUnion and Experian are not really in the news this week. Our system of credit operates on these bureaus, and we have two others that appear to be functioning properly. If I had one server that was obviously infested with hackers, but two others that were not obviously infested, assuming that I had isolated them properly and they did not have major parts that were in common, I'd start by unplugging the one that was already confirmed to be hacked. I think it works the same way when corporations that surveilled 50% or more of the population demonstrate systematic incompetence basically without remorse, as in this case. They just need to be unplugged, immediately. (I'm not advocating we shut down the entire credit system, in other words, although I am terrified it may yet come to that.)

therealdrag0 9y ago

>Sorry, that page doesn’t exist! What'd the tweet say?

kmm 9y ago
[They linked the wrong site](https://web.archive.org/web/20170920143324/https:/twitter.com/Equifax/status/910265181976104960 https://web.archive.org/web/20170920143324/https:/twitter.co...)

nikisweeting 9y ago

Actually they've tweeted the wrong link over 8 times, going all the way back to September 9th: https://twitter.com/MadcapOcelot/status/910533555494760449 https://twitter.com/MadcapOcelot/status/910533555494760449

kbutler 9y ago

> At this point Equifax has repeatedly demonstrated nothing but contempt for people whose information they have compromised. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. They've completely demonstrated incompetence, no contempt needed.

asmithmd1 9y ago
I am not sure what you think the definition of contempt is but from Google's definition (and example sentence) it is precisely the word to describe Equifax's behavior: The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. "he showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly"