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They sound a lot more trustworthy to me for owning up to it and spelling it out literally. That makes it sound like an isolated incident that they're able to re
by tux3 4y ago
They sound a lot more trustworthy to me for owning up to it and spelling it out literally. That makes it sound like an isolated incident that they're able to recognize as a problem publicly.
When a company does a standard "we take your privacy very seriously" non-response right after demonstrating that they do not, in fact, take it very seriously, it makes it sound like they're not willing to acknowledge the problem at all.
- xbar 4y agoAgreed. The transparency of the entire event, end to end, becomes a "ho hum, thanks for telling me, i guess" sort of story. Which is, I suppose, why it's on HN. I mean, "guy loses usb with data, finds usb with data" used to happen to me twice on Thursday back when usb was a thing. It was hardly front page news.
- Aeolun 4y ago> That makes it sound like an isolated incident that they're able to recognize as a problem publicly. I think it’s more that 80% of all company employees can symphatize. The situation isn’t all that uncommon (falling asleep on the street and misplacing your stuff somewhere). The fact that this person had a USB stick with the data of ~450k people on was.