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It's interesting when you have these old, large, sprawling bureaucratic organizations and the employees hardly give a sh!t anymore and allow for these large vul

• hypeatei 2y ago
  Our economic system is at odds with security because we're trying to "get by" as cheap as possible. That doesn't bode well for protection of users' data.
  • lotsofpulp 2y ago
    During the last decade, ATT’s leaders decided to burn tens of billions of dollars by overpaying for obviated businesses like DirecTV and Time Warner. I can only imagine the quality of mobile and fiber networking we could have had if that money was spent on telecommunications. And maybe they would have spent a few million on having proper security.
    • dopylitty 2y ago
      Not only that they blew $8 billion/year on dividends that could've gone into the business or to employees instead of being extracted and given to people who have nothing to do with the business.
      • lotsofpulp 2y ago
        When people invest in a business, whether it be your sibling’s business, or a local business, or a publicly traded business, they do it because they expect a return on investment. An infrastructure utility such as ATT typically has to offer dividends because it is not going to experience the type of growth that would result in a return via share price increase. Of course, ATT’s prices are not regulated like a proper utility, even though they should be, but it is still subject to the same market forces that prevent it from growing like a tech company would, who would have the option of foregoing dividends (or share buybacks).
• aitchnyu 2y ago
  Tangential, why did you/anybody spell "shit" like they are evading Tiktok language filters?