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It has been quite long enough since the Stratfor data breach for the CC companies to close & reissue new card numbers. This is much ado about nothing.
by fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
It has been quite long enough since the Stratfor data breach for the CC companies to close & reissue new card numbers. This is much ado about nothing.
- eli 13y agoExactly what cause has been advanced by making them available?
- niels_olson 13y agoMaybe we'll be able to identify some people who voted for Stratfor with their pocketbooks. That finding wouldn't make me sad.
- eli 13y agoYou want to internet mob justice on people who simply subscribed to a news service you don't like?
- cenhyperion 13y agoThat appears to be what he is advocating, yes.
- BrandonMarc 13y agoNext on WikiLeaks: credit card #'s and home addresses to subscribers to Fox News and MSNBC. It's the wild, wild west.
- baddox 13y agoThere's a big difference between saying there's something on the Internet for no great cause (stop the presses!) and saying that something on the Internet is causing unfair personal damage.
- eli 13y agoWhen is it ever fair to cause someone personal damage? Doesn't there need to be some greater, overriding justification? If not then isn't this just internet mob justice (and as usual, if there's some collateral damage, so be it)?
- baddox 13y ago> When is it ever fair to cause someone personal damage? A lot of the time. For example, it's fair to rat out a cop who acts inappropriately or give a negative review to an eBay seller who scams you.
- dlitz 13y agoFiltering this stuff reliably isn't exactly free.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoJust needs a quick regex! (now you have two problems: ) http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
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