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TJX Fires Employee For Disclosing Vulnerability
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A TJX employee was fired for an online post mentioning that TJX hasn't beefed up security after the recent, massive data breach that saw 94 million credit card numbers copied by criminals and money from their accounts stolen. The employee mentioned that, at first, their usernames were the same as their passwords. After they required stronger passwords, some managers complained, so they 'compromised' by allowing blank passwords. The whistleblower said he discussed his concerns with management, but that it was like talking to a brick wall. In spite of the weak internal security, TJX now has a firm that scours the internet to find bad things posted about them, which is how they found the message and fired him for it. Too bad they don't appear to have hired anyone to beef up operational security or to convince people to use strong passwords."
I used the same password as this account, and obviously some people found out about it and have been posting under my username for ages! :(
This data is implicitly safe now by the weak American Dollar, it would be like stealing Pesos.
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Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
that's fine--if someone gets my debit card number, they're welcome to both of the dollars in the account
Wait... He was an hourly associate in one of their retail outlets?
McDonalds is always hiring. It'll be a step up for him.
I've got the same key for my ssh sessions (with apologies to Debian).
SIG: HUP
My wife once had her credit card stolen (physically stolen). We got the CC bill a week later.
"Honey, look! The bill's $700 cheaper than last month!"
Now I go out with her when she decides to buy something.
I think I hear your mom calling you upstairs for dinner.
This has been a struggle for centuries.
Engineer: "I don't care what you read in 'Feudal Lords Monthly', if you want this castle to be secure, we need 2000 foot tall walls, 700 feet thick with a moat of pure acid that's 200 feet deep."
Lord: "But I read that this spell of invisibility and Norton(tm) balsa wood framework is just as good. It leads the industry!"
Yea, everyone around here agrees that she's a pretty good lay.
Then they've found a Gold Mine here on Slashdot.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
that's funny, but if they were rich she wouldn't need babysitting. it's ok, my ex-wife at at one point owned four garbage bags full of shoes. She was a good lay, cute, and she's a good mom. I'm still really, really, happy not to be buying her shoes anymore.
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
who needs strong passwords when you can simply have tough-to-guess usernames.
No fucking shit?!?!? They bought Google?!?!?!