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Bloomberg Shits the Bed Again on Cybersecurity
- banku_brougham 7y agoAgree. But bloomberg is communicating with an audience that has no idea what any of this means. For an unsophisticated user the phrase “end-to-end encryption still not safe” is an accurate summary of what to expect when you pick up your android phone and message someone, while you happen to be the target of a three letter agency or hacking exploit.
- olliej 7y agoA more accurate analogy is Your friend drops a package for you in a mail box. The package is delivered to your doorstep A criminal steals it from your doorstep. Therefore there was no reason for the usps mailbox to be secure. Or: A letter is dropped into your mailbox. A criminal breaks into it. Therefore there was no value in having a lock. Etc, etc that is how you explain it
- PhantomGremlin 7y agoGruber rants, fairly, about the changing headline. But then he creates a misleading headline of his own. From Wikipedia: Leonid Bershidsky ... is a Russian Berlin-based journalist and columnist for Bloomberg View, the editorial division of Bloomberg News. This article appears in Bershidsky's column in the Opinion section of Bloomberg. IMO a more appropriate title would have been: Bloomberg Columnist ...