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I have to say that T-Mobile is something special: 2020 - More than 50 million people now affected[1] 2021 - T-Mobile Hacked for 5th Time in 4 Years in Latest

by Bhilai 4y ago

I have to say that T-Mobile is something special: 2020 - More than 50 million people now affected[1] 2021 - T-Mobile Hacked for 5th Time in 4 Years in Latest Breach[2] 2021 - T-Mobile suffers another, smaller data breach[3] 2022 - This story While clearly T-Mobile does not care enough about information security to do something significant, its also pretty clear that stock market, customers and regulators also do not care about such gross negligence. [1]https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/t-mobile-data-breach-more-than-50-million-people-now-affected/ https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/t-mobile-data-breach-more-... [2]https://www.newsweek.com/t-mobile-hacked-5th-time-4-years-latest-breach-nearly-50-million-affected-1620710 https://www.newsweek.com/t-mobile-hacked-5th-time-4-years-la... [3]https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/t-mobile-reportedly-suffers-another-smaller-data-breach/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/t-mobile-reportedly-suffers...

zie 4y ago
I would 100% disagree. If these young teenagers can do it, it's clear that basically anyone willing, can break into basically any company they want, whenever they want. TMUS is not remotely special other than, it's apparently a little easier than T or VZ, but again it's not like we should consider those "safe" by any means. > its also pretty clear that stock market, customers and regulators also do not care about such gross negligence. Because everyone else is equally negligent. The NSA cares at least a token amount, but clearly they can't even keep their stuff safe, let alone the rest of us. Banks are "safe" not because they have good IT security, but because they have centuries of log auditing practice and can mostly undo transactions whenever they want.
- zapataband1 4y ago
  So thankful that the government has invested all of our money into manufacturing things that blow up and domestic spying programs

by Bhilai 4y ago

zie 4y ago

I would 100% disagree. If these young teenagers can do it, it's clear that basically anyone willing, can break into basically any company they want, whenever they want. TMUS is not remotely special other than, it's apparently a little easier than T or VZ, but again it's not like we should consider those "safe" by any means. > its also pretty clear that stock market, customers and regulators also do not care about such gross negligence. Because everyone else is equally negligent. The NSA cares at least a token amount, but clearly they can't even keep their stuff safe, let alone the rest of us. Banks are "safe" not because they have good IT security, but because they have centuries of log auditing practice and can mostly undo transactions whenever they want.

zapataband1 4y ago
So thankful that the government has invested all of our money into manufacturing things that blow up and domestic spying programs