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There should be capital punishment for companies that gently caress up that bad. They are people after all
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On the subject of old hard drives, the centre for computing history in Cambridge has this display which is pretty great
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Sep 7, 2017 23:36
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Sickening posted:RIP equifax. Pour one out for all our IT buddies who just poo poo their pants. Yep. This one's bad. Really loving bad.
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Sep 7, 2017 23:55
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Once all our data is stolen by everybody there will be no more need to protect it! 
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Sep 7, 2017 23:59
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Current piss-off: half-arsed documentation for getting a service working with a SAML provider 
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Sep 8, 2017 00:03
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Dick Trauma posted:Once all our data is stolen by everybody there will be no more need to protect it! You joke but it'll probably lead to actual discussahaha sorry, I tried
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Sep 8, 2017 00:05
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Thanks Ants posted:Current piss-off: half-arsed documentation for getting a service working with a SAML provider This pretty much any vendor implementation I do with our ADFS, half of them don't know what claim rules they need, don't give me a metadata file to import, etc etc. it's not like adfs isn't a pretty goddamn standard saml system, you should probably have documentation for that guys!
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Sep 8, 2017 00:10
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fishmech posted:Don't worry, they're offering a free year of their own credit monitoring! Don't you feel safe now? They also have a site up where you can input your last name and the last SIX digits of your SSN to check to see if you're affected. I sure feel comfortable doing that right at this moment.
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Sep 8, 2017 00:31
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Che Delilas posted:They also have a site up where you can input your last name and the last SIX digits of your SSN to check to see if you're affected. I sure feel comfortable doing that right at this moment. Ya, especially because the first three digits were linked to the state of issuance until 2011.
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Sep 8, 2017 00:36
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At this point, really what do you have to lose?
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Sep 8, 2017 00:39
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Che Delilas posted:They also have a site up where you can input your last name and the last SIX digits of your SSN to check to see if you're affected. I sure feel comfortable doing that right at this moment. It's a self-signed cert. 
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Sep 8, 2017 01:36
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Dick Trauma posted:Once all our data is stolen by everybody there will be no more need to protect it! After the OPM breach I didn't think it was possible for even more of my PII to get leaked out there but sure, fine, take my entire credit history. All I've got left to uniquely identify me at this point is a tiny scar that I don't think my own mother even knows about. poo poo, maybe it's time to get some unique tattoos. Or an implanted RFID chip?
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Sep 8, 2017 01:38
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Sirotan posted:After the OPM breach I didn't think it was possible for even more of my PII to get leaked out there but sure, fine, take my entire credit history. All I've got left to uniquely identify me at this point is a tiny scar that I don't think my own mother even knows about. But what happens if hackers manage to steal that while you sleep 
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Sep 8, 2017 01:53
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Sirotan posted:After the OPM breach I didn't think it was possible for even more of my PII to get leaked out there but sure, fine, take my entire credit history. All I've got left to uniquely identify me at this point is a tiny scar that I don't think my own mother even knows about. Yeah, my information has been stolen by so many people by now that it is dumb.
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Sep 8, 2017 02:18
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mewse posted:There should be capital punishment for companies that gently caress up that bad. They are people after all "I'll believe companies are people when Texas executes one."
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Sep 8, 2017 02:32
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I wonder what the day was like of the IT person who had been complaining for years that this was going to happen. And the IT person who inevitably gets traced as the one that "allowed" the vulnerability to stay open. And if both are the same person, hopefully they got a lot of saved emails documenting how it's an organizational fault.
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Sep 8, 2017 03:40
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xzzy posted:I wonder what the day was like of the IT person who had been complaining for years that this was going to happen. And the IT person who inevitably gets traced as the one that "allowed" the vulnerability to stay open. And if they do, then what? Suing a rich corporation, who can drag it for years before the person will die of stress? I mean, it's better to have those emails than not, but ... not much good can come out of it.
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Sep 8, 2017 03:47
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Dick Trauma posted:Once all our data is stolen by everybody there will be no more need to protect it! Think of the savings on backups!
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Sep 8, 2017 03:53
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Volguus posted:And if they do, then what? Suing a rich corporation, who can drag it for years before the person will die of stress? I mean, it's better to have those emails than not, but ... not much good can come out of it. I wasn't thinking of suing the corporation, just having some protection if lawyers come after them. Because this sort of thing demands scapegoats.
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Sep 8, 2017 04:03
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I'd hate to be proven wrong but I'm not aware of a single case of a sys admin being on the hook unless they were engaged in criminal activity themselves.
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Sep 8, 2017 04:54
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'd hate to be proven wrong but I'm not aware of a single case of a sys admin being on the hook unless they were engaged in criminal activity themselves. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/three-equifax-executives-sold-stock-before-revealing-cyber-hack These guys on the other hand are really hosed.
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Sep 8, 2017 09:13
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Jeoh posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/three-equifax-executives-sold-stock-before-revealing-cyber-hack I'd be shocked if they were punished with anything more than a fine that makes up 20% of the extra money they made by selling those shares before the price started falling.
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Sep 8, 2017 09:23
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I heard an interview on the radio this afternoon of one of Australia's representatives (eqifax has a company here) and when asked the question "what do you recommend your customers do?" there was silence and this "well, normally I would say to buy our credit protection subscription, but...hmm"
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Sep 8, 2017 09:51
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I used to work for Experian and I can only imagine the utter shitstorm facing anyone customer facing at Equifax today. We used to get hit badly enough when it was someone ELSE that had a data breach, their phone lines are going to be jammed all month for this.
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Sep 8, 2017 09:56
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AlternateAccount posted:Oh, don't forget those completely stupid BIGFOOT drives: http://www.redhill.net.au/d/125.php They were not lovely at all. When they were new it was a heap of storage for very cheap.
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Sep 8, 2017 12:51
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Fil5000 posted:On the subject of old hard drives, the centre for computing history in Cambridge has this display which is pretty great Harry Potter is my new favourite unit of measurement.
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Sep 8, 2017 13:23
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Needs like a 256GB MicroSD card in there
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Sep 8, 2017 13:39
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For anyone in the UK, that museum is definitely worth a visit. There's hardly anything that you can't just poke and prod to your hearts content, and there's a ton of arcade cabinets on freeplay as well as a big wall of consoles from the intellivision up to the gamecube that are also available to play on. They even had an Amstrad GX4000 which was an utter failure, only has about a dozen games and has the worst gamepad I've ever had the misfortune to hold.
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Sep 8, 2017 13:48
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fist4jesus posted:They were not lovely at all. When they were new it was a heap of storage for very cheap. They often had overheating and reliability problems in the devices they'd be sold in.
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Sep 8, 2017 13:51
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Fil5000 posted:For anyone in the UK, that museum is definitely worth a visit. There's hardly anything that you can't just poke and prod to your hearts content, and there's a ton of arcade cabinets on freeplay as well as a big wall of consoles from the intellivision up to the gamecube that are also available to play on. They even had an Amstrad GX4000 which was an utter failure, only has about a dozen games and has the worst gamepad I've ever had the misfortune to hold. Also this https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/yorkshire-games-festival
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Sep 8, 2017 14:30
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Thanks Ants posted:Also this https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/yorkshire-games-festival I also work about 15 minutes walk away from the national videogame arcade in Nottingham, but for some reason I've never been. I've driven 90 minutes to Cambridge to see a room full of BBC Micros but I won't use my lunch break to go and see the Dizzy exhibition, apparently.
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Sep 8, 2017 14:36
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Humphreys posted:I heard an interview on the radio this afternoon of one of Australia's representatives (eqifax has a company here) and when asked the question "what do you recommend your customers do?" there was silence and this "well, normally I would say to buy our credit protection subscription, but...hmm" http://myfox8.com/2017/09/08/if-you-want-help-from-equifax-there-are-strings-attached/ quote:You give up your right to sue Equifax. If you get the credit monitoring service, you must agree to submit any complaints against Equifax to arbitration. You can’t sue on your own behalf, and you can’t join a class-action case or benefit from any class-action settlement that Equifax agrees to. holy. gently caress.
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Sep 8, 2017 14:58
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Are those terms even legal?
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Sep 8, 2017 15:04
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More things to consider: their main site is still broken: https://twitter.com/x0rz/status/906046732722679808
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Sep 8, 2017 15:13
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fishmech posted:They often had overheating and reliability problems in the devices they'd be sold in. Jamming the thing into a device that wasn't suited to it doesn't make the drive itself bad. The ones I had, that I bought in 1997, were still running 12 years later. I think their magnets are still on the side of my filecabinet. Yes they ran warm, thats why people in those days had lots of fans. Remember all the dinky 2-3 ones that went into 5.25 bays?
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Sep 8, 2017 15:14
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The US supreme Court upheld arbitration clauses as legally binding.
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Sep 8, 2017 15:14
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fist4jesus posted:Jamming the thing into a device that wasn't suited to it doesn't make the drive itself bad. Well the drives were DESIGNED to be jammed into cheap computers with less care about airflow and stuff is the thing.
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Sep 8, 2017 15:27
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Couldn't get it without the glare, but I took a better photo of the disk platter display we have at work. Since we all seem to love oogling out of date hardware.
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Sep 8, 2017 16:03
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bitterandtwisted posted:Harry Potter is my new favourite unit of measurement. We used to use the Encyclopaedia Britannica or OED as a unit of measurement. We're a empire in decline.
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fishmech posted:Well the drives were DESIGNED to be jammed into cheap computers with less care about airflow and stuff is the thing. No. They were designed to be easily built and to give the best price to storage at the time. They also took advantage of the unused bay space most cases at the time had. Anecdotal I know, but my experience with them was as a owner and selling the things to cheap customers. Not a noticeable difference in rma volume or returns. The worst (and best) thing about them was actually the sound, could clearly hear the thing spin up and down.
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