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You seem entirely focused on PII concerns and arguing as if the only organizations affected by this incident are "giant companies". That doesn't seem to be the
by gwright 6y ago
You seem entirely focused on PII concerns and arguing as if the only organizations affected by this incident are "giant companies". That doesn't seem to be the case. I haven't seen any suggestion that this incident is focused on that type of data.
As much as I agree with all the concerns posted here about how data should be protected better I don't think it is necessary to excuse and legitimize the unauthorized access along the way.
- jessaustin 6y agoWealthy interests built the system, but they're not the only abusive actors within it. It would not surprise if smaller firms completely failed to protect the data of other parties more often than larger firms did so. The best way for database operators to prevent unauthorized access and deletion is to secure their databases in some way. The best way for anyone else to prevent abusive access is to delete unsecured databases. Working together, this problem will be solved eventually.