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My information was released without warning. They dumped everything days ago. They could have informed Stratfor about the vulnerability, or even waited to give
by TheCowboy 15y ago
My information was released without warning. They dumped everything days ago. They could have informed Stratfor about the vulnerability, or even waited to give people a chance to cancel their cards.
Stratfor probably is to blame for lax security. But the hackers are as much to blame for violating my privacy.
I think Dan's point about alienating the wrong people by picking the wrong battles is the most important. Treating innocent people as 'collateral damage' is dehumanizing.
Edit for zobzu:
They posted everything days ago.
My post contains none of the implied strawmen you assume. I believe we're on the same side, so I'm not sure why you are flaming me. You didn't address anything I said in my post.
Please review the guidelines so we can keep the discussion civil and useful: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zobzu 15y agoActually they warned people a few days ago. But yeah, I agree with you, you're much better off when people hack those accounts, steal the money and not do tell anybody, so they can keep stealing from it from time to time, and since you don't know about it, you're secure! Plus I guess it's only ok to see collateral damage when it's poor people getting killed by the army in other countries, on TV. Cause yeah it's TV. Feel sad for 2 min and go grab a coffee. Heck in this war all you have to do is switch credit card. Not switch a leg for a plastic one. Oh I know this is not going to be popular.
- tomjen3 15y agoNice troll.
- robryan 15y agoYeah I agree they haven't take the best form of action which would be to email everyone in the dataset and give them a chance to change their credit card without giving out the whole set. At the same time though this is a better outcome than the information being silently sold.