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> So why not just accept the post for what it is - some basic advice to do that one better step. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/us/office-of-personnel-manag
by balls187 11y ago
> So why not just accept the post for what it is - some basic advice to do that one better step.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/us/office-of-personnel-management-hackers-got-data-of-millions.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/us/office-of-personnel-man...
- woah 11y agoLook up "medium-brow dismissal"
- balls187 11y agoI did. Wasn't sure what I was looking for. https://www.google.com/search?q=medium-brow+dismissal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=medium-brow+dismissal&ie=utf... It's clearly a logical failure to suggest heeding the authors advice would result in a catastrophic security breach. Not paying attention to security by reason of "I've done a little better than nothing at all" feels like willful negligence.
- jaawn 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072224 (edit: this is an explanation of what "middle-brow dismissal" is)
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- codingdave 11y agoDo you honestly feel that the work of beginning web developers falls into the same risk management quadrant as a major governmental database of personal information?