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No way. There is no better or more tactful way to show how roundly incompetent the company is, and continues to be, than to put up a domain name that is confus

by yebyen 9y ago

No way. There is no better or more tactful way to show how roundly incompetent the company is, and continues to be, than to put up a domain name that is confusingly similar to the already confusing, pointless, dangerous domain that they put up as a response to their breach... and then proceed to watch them as they tweet it out to half dozen or more of their customers, as if on cue. There just isn't! It's perfect. Many people who are professional security types said on Day 1 that this would happen, and sagely advised that it might be unwise for anyone to put part of their SSN into a two-day old website on a previously unknown domain that looked like Baby's first PHP, just as news of the breach was still breaking. And that it was similarly unwise to ask them to do so! So can we just unplug Equifax already? Please? It should be clear who the guilty party is here, and it starts with an Equifax.

beager 9y ago
Thoroughly disagree. While I do think Equifax should be raked forcefully over the coals for their gross and pervasive misconduct, setting up something that is virtually equivalent to a phishing site does not punish them or create relief for exposed parties. It just sows more confusion, and creates a distraction that Equifax could conceivably use to divert attention away from their own fiasco.
- yebyen 9y ago
  That's understandable. I just don't see how anything good comes from this breach unless we can get eyeballs on poor security practices. Because nobody else between you, me, and the wall seems to be paying any attention to this at all. There's no relief forthcoming that is possible. The only way things get better now is if we dismantle the entire credit system as we know it, the cat is out of the bag. I'm not interested in punishment. I want to see more serious attention given to prevention. First, I want to see the license and the keys taken away from the repeat offending drunk driver. Who gave them keys anyway? I sure as hell didn't sign up for this, I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

by yebyen 9y ago

beager 9y ago

Thoroughly disagree. While I do think Equifax should be raked forcefully over the coals for their gross and pervasive misconduct, setting up something that is virtually equivalent to a phishing site does not punish them or create relief for exposed parties. It just sows more confusion, and creates a distraction that Equifax could conceivably use to divert attention away from their own fiasco.

yebyen 9y ago
That's understandable. I just don't see how anything good comes from this breach unless we can get eyeballs on poor security practices. Because nobody else between you, me, and the wall seems to be paying any attention to this at all. There's no relief forthcoming that is possible. The only way things get better now is if we dismantle the entire credit system as we know it, the cat is out of the bag. I'm not interested in punishment. I want to see more serious attention given to prevention. First, I want to see the license and the keys taken away from the repeat offending drunk driver. Who gave them keys anyway? I sure as hell didn't sign up for this, I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.