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It's purposefully alarmist. "[Equifax] casually misplace[d] 2.5 million lives" sounds much more dramatic than "Equifax revised their estimate of the number of a
by vintageseltzer 9y ago
It's purposefully alarmist. "[Equifax] casually misplace[d] 2.5 million lives" sounds much more dramatic than "Equifax revised their estimate of the number of affected customers by +1.7%."
- kevinh 9y agoOr maybe the latter is purposefully anodyne? 2.5 million people is rightfully alarming. 1.7% minimizes the sheer amount of people affected that weren't revealed earlier.
- paulddraper 9y agoI want to be a fly on that wall. "Ah, s--- we got hacked." "How many users?" "145,534,902" "Ouch, that's a lot. Let's say it was 143,000,000." "He he he, nice." --- I've misplaced more bytes in a megabyte.
- khedoros1 9y agoYou've misplaced 2.5 million bytes in a megabyte?
- paulddraper 9y agoI've misplaced > 1.7%. E.g. I say one million but it turns out to be 1.05 million.