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McAfee Leaks Conference Attendees' Personal Info

Posted by samzenpus on from the black-fly-in-your-chardonnay dept.

Timmy writes "In the cruelest of ironies, e-mail security vendor McAfee has accidentally coughed up the personal details of some 1400 attendees of its recent security conference in Sydney, Australia. Those who were sent the list — attached as a spreadsheet to a thank you e-mail — are far from pleased that such an extraordinary thing could happen. McAfee, which sells products to 'stop sensitive and protected data from leaving the enterprise through email and web traffic' has blamed 'human error' for the blunder and is 'taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again.' Doh!"

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  1. Evolution by Methos137 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Further proof that no matter how good of a system we design, the universe will design a better idiot to use it.

  2. Re:I just had to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot to attach the spreadsheet to that post ;)

  3. Dear Ms Morissette by whisper_jeff · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Ms Morissette,

    This is irony. Please take note.

    Yours truly

    1. Re:Dear Ms Morissette by Nevynxxx · · Score: 5, Funny

      I find the song in question paradoxical. It's ironic that a song called ironic, contains so little irony. But perhaps that is why the song is named as it is, and the irony is intentional, but then it wouldn't be ironic as it was designed that way, bringing us back to the beginning.

      <~head explodes~>

  4. Well, obviously... by Kuroji · · Score: 2, Funny

    McAfee's marketing department leaked it, because they were testing the old 'bad publicity is worse than no publicity' theory.

    Results so far are not promising.

  5. Re:Title error by UNHOLYwoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I second the grammar nazi.

  6. RTFA!!! by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Funny

    I actually READ TFA.

    Turns out the summary was pretty accurate.

    Just thought I'd mention that.