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Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) asked whether Equifax CEO Mark Begor would be willing to share his address, birth date, and Social Security number publicly at the hearing. Begor declined, citing the risk of "identity theft," letting Porter criticize Equifax's legal response to the 2017 security breach that exposed almost 150 million people's data of that sort to an unknown intruder. The company had unsuccessfully asked a judge presiding over a class-action suit over the breach to dismiss it, saying the plaintiffs hadn't "sufficiently alleged injury and proximate causation" to bring suit, as Yahoo Finance reported late last month.
But they won't do that. Because he's rich. Filthy rich.
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So she got her 15 minutes of fame, but does it change anything? Aside from the headline, is there any effect?
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not that it hurts to call folks out for their bullshit, but by itself it's little more than impotent rage. If you want change you need to get a lot more people like her in office. And that means showing up for primary elections so you have real choices in the general election.
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"Destroys" is a curious claim. He goes back to his job tomorrow at the same salary and position, They keep running things the same way they have before. Minor blush over being called out in public and all is forgotten. But the congress critter will brag about how she said something smart rather than actually accomplishing anything.
This generation needs to learn, Words do not destroy, only actions do. Perhaps this misconception is part of the reason why people are so afraid of words. Or maybe they've watched too much Harry Potter and think the world is run by spoken magic spells. But even then, they forget that the spell has to be spoken in Latin to have any real effect.
The problem I have with congressional hearings, it is that you a forced to go to a roasting session, and a scolding that one hasn't had sense they were 8 years old.
The problem is that these do little to fix the problems, politician zingers only really hurt people with political ambitions. A CEO doesn't need to win popular vote, He is fine being the most hated man in the world just as long as he gets his pay. Besides after the hearing, most CEO's will get out of the public eye, and most people will forget such insults and scolding told to him.
These hearings shouldn't be about punishing a guy, no matter how nasty they are. But trying to get information so Congress can craft laws and policies to prevent it from happening again.
I am sure Mark Begor as an adult, will fly home in his personal jet, and not loose much sleep, because a Congresswomen got a good zing on him.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Nothing matters. This has no meaning. He won't lose his job. He won't even lose a second of sleep. He doesn't care about this or anything. Nothing matters.
Because he's rich. Wealth is the only virtue American culture acknowledges.
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You're claiming a user with a 3-digit uid is a Russian troll? Idiot.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
Millions of people were forced to spend their time getting credit reports because of the breach, and time is money, so clearly millions of people were injured to the tune of at least a couple of bucks apiece.
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You slapped him with words. I do appreciate this. Really.
Now let actions follow to match the bite to the bark!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This is what someone calls "destroying" they need to be put in a bubble the rest of their lives. That CEO has had much tougher talks and dealings to get to where he is now. Not easy climbing the corporate ladder.
Besides, this is just politics. It's only popular right now. This will be forgotten and gone soon enough.
"Destroyed"? Hardly. This congressional hearings do nothing anyway, they are a waste of time. Congress critters hold them to make it look like they are "doing something".
Nope. She just chewed him out. Can we chill with the over dramatic headlines? I want to destroy modern journalism and replace with something that just tells me what happened.
This is a show, waste of money and time. If they are serious, shutdown EQUIFAX and distribute all profit to people victimized.
If -anyone- really cared about security, you wouldn't post mind-numbing personal details about yourself on social media. You wouldn't buy an always on spyware devices like Alexa or Google home, or Nest (Wait? What? NEST has a microphone? - yep), you wouldn't tolerate smart phones and apps constantly digesting your behavior and movement.
So long as you don't care about your privacy, corporations won't either.
In Soviet Russia, the long game plays you.
This is the real topic we should be talking about.
So yesterday company/organization X got hacked and/or left info open to the public.
Tomorrow it will be company Y.
And so on, and so on.
No amount of cost or any other form of deterrence will prevent this from continuing to happen. So long as the risk is worth the reward to someone then it will continue to happen.
So then the question becomes about how to have a sustainable form of identity moving forward. We need to be thinking about what "identity" is and how to separate it from financial ruin. Maybe money, in all it's forms, should not be tied to identity at all in the future?
And I'm warning you right now, you're backing a proven traitor, you faggot punk ass bitch denialist of no value. Trump will die in prison. Watch and learn faggot.
Since his campaign there have been nothing but name calling and zingers and other attention getters. It's depressing that more people are willing to fall in with that rather than fall out. Schoolyard talk has taken over at the cost of debate and discussion.
Damn, the devolution of Slashdot into a clickbait headline service is now complete.
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Of condemnation. I'm sure they are shaking in their boots. Probably learned their lesson too. The lesson is: when you have access to peoples personal information without their consent due to government usage of your product, don't pay extra money for security because even if you compromise ALL the data due to negligence NOTHING will happen monetarily to impact you.
To be fair, we first started having Soviet Russia jokes during the time of 3 digit uids.
A more meaningful dialogue would have been something like
- Porter - would you take this $100 bill to post your information on line now, or even $1000, I have the cash in hand
- Begor - that's personal information
- Porter - how about $10,000, I have a suitcase of cash here
- Begor - Congresswoman, I don't want to engage in this sort....
- Porter - answer the question yes or no
- Begor - this sort of hypothetical...
- Porter - let the record show that Begor wouldn't not take $10,000 to post his personal information on line and that should be the starting amount, per person, for a payout in any settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Equifax
Then that might have some legal implications, and not just be grandstanding
Why not? Run some of those huge username-password pair dataleaks against users who have not logged in for some time. Instant credibility.
It's what I would do if I was a professional troll.
I would have accepted "She introduced legislation."
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The problem is that the USA has somehow allowed these credit rating companies to provide data to banks, loan agencies, corporate hiring departments, insurance agencies, etc., without any laws related to verification of the data provided.
It's easier to get your consciousness uploaded to Mr. Frostee than it is to get incorrect info removed from your credit report. There's nothing requiring the credit bureaus to fact-check and verify the sewage coming into their databases, let alone anything requiring them to change the contents of the database when correct material is supplied.
That's what needs to be fixed.
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DNC knows you are too stupid to vote for anyone besides them no matter how corrupt they are.
They could literally rig a primary and you would still vote for them.
They could take $450 million in personal bribes to sell nuclear material to Russia and you would still vote for them.
They could pass a bill that legalizes killing live born babies and you would still vote for them.
(Note, they have done all the above)
With idiots like you voting blindly, what is the incentive for them to even attempt to do the right thing?
Ok she had a great point, but can we stop using yahoo phrasing in our headlines?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Now the banks come after the name on their record. Now it is up to the innocent victim who has to prove he/she was not the person who borrowed.
Right now, a bank with all its financial muscle can accuse someone of defaulting on a loan. The alleged defaulter needs to spend time, and energy to fight it off. And in the end you can't get the money spent on defense back from the bank.
We just have to change the law to say, "If a lender falsely accuses someone of default, it should pay the accused the amount claimed as restitution and the cost of defending the claim". Banks will become lot more diligent in processing the loan application, and be a lot more careful before it brings in the muscle to collect.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Penalty should be
1. Pay fine to states/federal government
2. Pay at least $100 fine to each and every person whose information was stolen
3. Pay for 2 years of ID theft monitoring and ID theft repair services
4. Pay 25% of the premium for a long term care type of insurance for ID theft monitoring and ID theft repair services which extends from date of breach until death of the affected person
So immediate penalty to govt, affected persons get some money whether or not they are ID theft victim and insurance for life.
At what date past the 1 year of paid credit monitoring does my SSN, name, birthdate, etc become invalid?
The World Weekly News is right up your alley, too bad they folded in 2007.
Or you could try the Sun, or the Daily Fail.
Seriously. Destroyed? Destroyed would be 50 years in prison, forfeit the car, homes, boats, jets, possessions. That would be "Destroyed."
*sigh*
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Fuck off with your clickbait style bullshit. This isnt Huffpost you dickheads. No one was destroyed.
Bill, you're a lying faggot. Go drink your "sterile blood plasma" you lying faggot.
What a fucking joke. He probably had to take the next day off to recover over a round of golf.
Is I was like OMG dat Congress woman like totally *destroyed* that equinox CEO. It was so incredible I like literally could not even anymore. I literally died right there and I'm still dying now.
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Not sure where the fuck you've been. The DNC ran to the gutter over a decade ago. You seem to be upset it is being thrown back at the baby killers/ KKK Klansmen / Rapist supporters.
it would be too easy to use a data breach as a form of attacking somebody's company. Some breaches are going to happen and be genuinely out of the person's control.
Large breaches should be treated as negligence cases. That'll help. But a better and real long term solution is to force companies to build systems that prevent breaches from causing problems. Somebody shouldn't be able to get a mortgage with a SS# and a smile. It doesn't help that such loans are often guaranteed, often sold by salesmen on commission and usually the company involved has no incentive to risk losing a sale.
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Do you even have a suggestion to make it better?
My own suggestion involves solutions linked to the problems the journalists keep telling us about.
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You are referring to The Blue Wall. Judges and prosecutors collude to protect corrupt police officers. That is why I am a fan of body cameras, dash cameras, and instant streaming.
The death penalty!
You're claiming a user with a 3-digit uid is a Russian troll? Idiot.
No NO, you don't GET it, do you? They've been planning this for a long, LONG time, and now it's almost come to fruition!
/. . Well good, maybe they can fix the unicode problem as well. *I'D* vote for that, even if I didn't!
That, or remember: they're hackers, maybe they've hacked into
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His company argued in court that the plaintiffs were not harmed by the breach. So under penalty of perjury he should have been forced to either admit that his attorneys knowing filed a false rebuttal to the court, divulge his personal information or be held in contempt of Congress. She did not push this line of questioning far enough.
You're claiming a user with a 3-digit uid is a Russian troll? Idiot.
Accounts can be sold, and compromised. However, your fundamental reasoning is correct: the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.
Someone pays for a 3-digit /. ID? What's the going rate?
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Actually not. We started having "first post" jokes back when I joined. Soviet Russia came later. Maybe they existed before, but the time when they became popular was a couple years later.
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Not this CEO, but the one before. You know, the one who actually was in charge during the events that occurred, rather than the dude that was airdropped in after the whole mess was exposed.
Doesn't change the fact that the current CEO is probably no less of a sleazebag, considering his lawyers are trying to argue the information is "public", thus no damage has occurred. Put up or shut up.
Though Equifax should have suffered a corporate death penalty for what they did.
You're claiming a user with a 3-digit uid is a Russian troll? Idiot.
Lower ID accounts can be bought...
But Tom has been posting regularly for a long time. It doesn't seem like the account switched owners/users.
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