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> using "password" as your password is wrong. Only idiots do that and that means they deserve their files being deleted? What if that person was a non-tech sav
by user24 16y ago
> using "password" as your password is wrong. Only idiots do that
and that means they deserve their files being deleted? What if that person was a non-tech savvy biologist working on cancer research? Or a college admin person and those files were the grades for the graduating year?
Serves 'em right for choosing a lame password and not setting up their own RAID server, eh?
- 16s 16y agoIf you run with scissors and fall, you may impale yourself. That does not mean (as you suggest) that they "deserved" it. It's a simple fact.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoExcept in this analogy, you tripped them.
- petercooper 16y agoI don't know jot all about car repair and if I tried to enact a casual repair and burnt myself or caused some other catastrophe, it would not be unreasonable to be considered an "idiot" by a professional mechanic. The merit of the agent or situation involved (picking a cancer researcher seems like a clever and emotional rhetorical ploy) does not affect the demand for having domain knowledge when using or maintaining certain systems.