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"you should never blame the victim of a crime just because the victim didn't take adequate steps to defend themselves." This reasoning is not applicable when t
by Jun8 16y ago
"you should never blame the victim of a crime just because the victim didn't take adequate steps to defend themselves."
This reasoning is not applicable when the victim is a corporation who gives implicit or explicit guarantees to their customers about security. Your example should be: if you stored your stuff at a paid storage facility and someone there accidentally left the door yo your unit open.
I wouldn't care if it's a bunch of teenagers or Chinese cyber-warfare team who breaks into my Gmail account, I'd be mad as hell with Google for letting this happen.
Pressing charges against the proprietors of the crime will not change the fact that this host acted in a very irresponsible and sloppy way, and is in short untrustworthy.