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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe
someone's identified the real victim:

https://twitter.com/seansposito/status/906272195525066752

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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

i'm reading this loving twitter conversation and getting increasingly mad. who the gently caress is this guy and why is he loving shilling for a god drat credit reporting agency


https://twitter.com/seansposito/status/906275116702613504



oh lmao he's just asking for thoughts and prayers for the poor security people at equifax :qq:


https://twitter.com/seansposito/status/906385299231698944

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
now's not the time to talk about cyber security, it's too soon and these cyber wounds have to cyber heal.

James Baud
May 24, 2015

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Business reporter in exactly that area (finance, data security/privacy), probably trying to get someone from inside to reach out to him for sympathetic coverage if people fall for stuff that transparent.

Maximum Leader
Dec 5, 2014
the attack was in cyber space but the hurt is in the heart of the cost-cutting Equifax middle-managers, please show some respect

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

Related: http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/equifax-lobbied-kill-rule-protecting-victims-data-breaches-2587929

quote:

Equifax Lobbied To Kill Rule Protecting Victims Of Data Breaches
...
The Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA) — which says it is “the trade association which represents Equifax” — pressed regulators to back off the proposed prohibitions, saying the regulations would subject data companies to tough penalties if during a class action suit they were found to have broken the law.

In one section of the letter, CDIA declares that federal regulators “should exempt from its arbitration rule class action claims against providers of credit monitoring products.” The letter asserted that allowing customers to sue companies “would not serve the public interest or the public good” because it could subject the companies to “extraordinary and draconian civil liability provisions” under current law. In another section of the letter, Equifax’s lobbying group says that a rule blocking companies from forcing their customers to waive class action rights would expose credit agencies “to unmanageable class action liability that could result in full disgorgement of revenues” if companies are found to have illegally harmed their customers.
...
The company and CDIA are also both lobbying Congress on a Republican-sponsored House bill, pointed out by journalist David Dayen on Twitter on Friday, that would cap class action damages at $500,000 and eliminate punitive damages altogether.

Ethics!

Rooney McNibnug
Sep 2, 2008

"Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better."
lovely credit agencies like Equifax have became powerhouses in terms of lobbying, especially in the past decade:



https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lobby.php?id=D000025712

Diva Cupcake
Aug 15, 2005

https://twitter.com/webster/status/906346071210778625

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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please tell me they'll send you a confirmation email around the time you ask for this lol

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

not even iso date format smh

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004


:psyduck:

geonetix
Mar 6, 2011


this entire equifax fiasco is close enough example for how healthy most us systems are at this point

now i'm waiting for the equivalent nonsense to happen in eu

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




geonetix posted:

this entire equifax fiasco is close enough example for how healthy most us systems are at this point

now i'm waiting for the equivalent nonsense to happen in eu

have you heard of swedish witness protection program data leak of this summer?

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...
The EU has data privacy laws though, so at least there are consequences.

There aren't really, are there. :(

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Volmarias posted:

The EU has data privacy laws though, so at least there are consequences.

There aren't really, are there. :(

gdpr

geonetix
Mar 6, 2011



lol

geonetix
Mar 6, 2011


lets fine facebook €150000, that'll teach em! - EU

lol, i make that back in 4 minutes - the zuck

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




geonetix posted:

lets fine facebook €150000, that'll teach em! - EU

lol, i make that back in 4 minutes - the zuck
xdddd

look up the fine google paid just recently, and what fines gdpr can impose

geonetix
Mar 6, 2011


im aware what gdpr can do (20m eur or 4% of turnover - also i'd like to see the economic impact of the eu trying to impose these fines on non-european companies), but it still has to be proportional and it's already been stated they'll never jump up to the maximum fine unless you're actively making an effort to not be gdpr compliant. even then, it'll be a noteworthy case when they hit a company with even the 2%/10m ruling. gdpr in itself is a "let's wait and see" kind of thing for these kind of matters. for business, i've heard it described as "the business prevention policy", which i tend to agree with after dealing with gdpr within the our infosec and legal teams and its driving me nuts

still, wouldnt want to be the equifax of europe when gdpr is around

Babies Getting Rabies
Apr 21, 2007

Sugartime Jones
it won't be maximum fines but as far as i know, gdpr does contain stipulations that the fine must be high enough to actually have a substantial effect. we'll have to wait and see how that turns out in practice, but i bet it will be pretty painful

Workaday Wizard
Oct 23, 2009

by Pragmatica

geonetix posted:

lets fine facebook €150000, that'll teach em! - EU

lol, i make that back in 4 minutes - the zuck

it's gonna be much much higher than that but it wont hurt. what will hurt is market losing confidence and share price dropping.

Workaday Wizard
Oct 23, 2009

by Pragmatica
if i was the eu i would be digging for reasons to sue us companies. free money y'all.

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
they do that all the time

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Shaggar posted:

they do that all the time

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spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Shaggar posted:

they do that all the time

With gusto :discourse:

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

if i was the eu i would be digging for reasons to sue us companies. free money y'all.

lol if you think any digging is required

geonetix
Mar 6, 2011


you should see the list of suppliers that will only be gdpr compliant "for us" if we pay 10x the list price on their website. see you in june 2018 motherfuckers

but i still doubt how effective it really is, and how much real consumers actually care

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin
Those qualifications....her LinkedIn is gone now, ofc.

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"
fuk u she was maga cum loud

geonetix
Mar 6, 2011


she was also a professional before she became chief security

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

geonetix posted:

lets fine facebook €150000, that'll teach em! - EU

lol, i make that back in 4 minutes - the zuck

2 minutes

facebooks last earning call had them making $1200 per second

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

PyPy posted:

Those qualifications....her LinkedIn is gone now, ofc.

http://www.cazena.com/susan-mauldin-transcript

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011


AAAAAAA lmao

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin
I....am at a loss

Asshole Masonanie
Oct 27, 2009

by vyelkin

NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:

hey rufo is on there

rufo is the best

Asshole Masonanie
Oct 27, 2009

by vyelkin

lol this dude is a loving idiot and it's great

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

More disk space = more that hackers need to search to find the real critical files. Same reason you should hide your files in as deep of a subdirectory as possible, they gotta sit there and dig down to it. :pseudo:

c:\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\0\q\w\e\r\t\y\u\i\o\p\a\s\d\f\g\h\j\k\l\z\x\c\v\b\n\m\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\0\q\w\e\r\t\y\u\i\o\p\a\s\d\f\g\h\j\k\l\z\x\c\v\b\n\m\ssids.txt

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

PyPy posted:

Those qualifications....her LinkedIn is gone now, ofc.



she had at the very least 11 years experience in something or other - she's blocked details of previous jobs. she could be extremely qualified we don't know

edit: more disk space and computing power could just be trying to get them to finally pay for new hardware but that entire answer does not instill confidence

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anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

hobbesmaster posted:

she had at the very least 11 years experience in something or other - she's blocked details of previous jobs. she could be extremely qualified we don't know

edit: more disk space and computing power could just be trying to get them to finally pay for new hardware but that entire answer does not instill confidence
according to other, not-linkedin websites they're all director- or c-level positions in infosec

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