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Comment by tantalor

13 hours ago

The word you're looking for is "gross negligence"

Sometimes I feel like it's a cover for some other org actually just wanting to steal the data and this being the excuse.

  • You mean like if our government was compromised at the highest levels and they wanted to undermine everything without the public realizing? Btw what happened to all the social security data that DOGE exfiltrated?

    • When empires collapse, it's usually not caused by a foreign power, but by negligence and corruption from within

    • the fact we're asking about it means the public realized

      the problem is the public is dumb, at least when it comes to security, and couldn't tell you why password123 is bad

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"crazy crazy" gets the same point across

  • Yeah, but the words gross negligence is legal for you're going to be sued for a whole lot of money.

    • While I agree that it should not have happened, at the same time its probably true that most people are never formally trained on security.

      The real story here is a big gap in existing implementations where shared credentials are needed and used pretty much across all the systems but there are no good solutions for managing such use cases. People are naturally more sensitive about their personal secrets than something thats shared across the company/group

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