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I don't have formal credentials in medicine, but I know how to hold a knife. Will you trust me to do a surgery on you?

• deleted 9y ago
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• ceejayoz 9y ago
  There are plenty of doctors who majored in music.
  • woranl 9y ago
    Those doctors have formal credentials. Does Equifax security head have the equivalent formal credentials? Anyone can get to top position if they know who and how to suck up.
    • ceejayoz 9y ago
      What are these "equivalent" formal credentials for security?
• dredmorbius 9y ago
  Thirty years ago not only did modern computer security concepts not exist, and not only were there no programmes in them, but odds are good that "computer science" was part of the maths department. The first computer science department dates to 1962 at Purdue University (home of Eugene "Spaff" Spafford). Others formed generally during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • woranl 9y ago
    Last I checked, the leak was not thirty years ago.
    • dredmorbius 9y ago
      The degree was. And on-the-job experience is a thing. Your responses strongly suggest a failure to grant charitable consideration: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      • woranl 9y ago
        This is negligence. Public safety should always be paramount. One cannot claim to be a professional without credentials. People lives are at risk because of mind set like yours. If the Equifax security head truly is qualified, then why delete info on LinkedIn? What is there to hide?