Equifax Breach is Very Possibly the Worst Leak of Personal Info Ever so far.
It will be very hard to top this. In this case we have half of a population with personal info detailed enough to effectively steal identity in multiple ways, of a group of people who have no business with the company, and who may not know that their personal information is part of it. That is the real problem here. The sheer size and almost covert scope given that none of these people are customers of Equifax and I'm sure nearly all people have no idea who this company even is.
About the only thing that could top this is major breach of a government site like the IRS, and even then the possibilities of achieving such scope limit you to the government departments of only a few companies.
There's no "talk" on the fuel side of the regulation. There's actual action which refineries are already gearing up to support. One big one is by 2020 there needs to be a 3% reduction in sulfur in open oceans (down to 0.5%). The last change happened only in 2015 where controlled area sulfur was reduced by 0.9% down to 0.1%.
There is talk on the burning of it side though with the actual emissions not being regulated yet. It's much easier to regulate what goes in the tank than what comes out of the exhaust in the middle of the ocean.
But since they're trying to actively kill the plugin development community
By releasing a more secure API that makes it easy to port code between browsers, easier to maintain, and reduces the endless cycle of constantly breaking plugins?
Did you actually mean "frustrated coders sick of their shit" when you wrote "development community"?
When a fairly simple technology like this hasn't caught on for over a century, there's probably a good reason for it.
Yes because we know everything right off the bat. There certainly hasn't been any advances in transport that has gained wide spread adoption over half a century after the discovery of the mode of transport./Sarcasm
For a practical example see Winglets. Invented in 1897, patented for aircraft use in 1930, didn't even get considered for passenger aircraft until the late 80s, and now because of the large fuel savings and stability you get for this over 100 year old invention you won't find a passenger aircraft without them.
If you don't have the cash then you can't afford that car.
That is possibly the dumbest comment I've ever seen. The ability to afford is about balancing incoming and outgoing finances, not about accumulating mountains of cash.
If that was your criteria then as a well paid engineer I wouldn't have been able to "afford" my car for the first 6 months of my working life.
(I could and did afford it, along side holidays, other luxury spending and also house repayments).
It is an imperfect national identifier because you cannot change it when compromised
You're doing exactly what the GP said not to do. An SSN is an identifier, not an Authenticator. It is not possible to compromise an identifier any more than another person who has the same name as you "compromises" your name.
Or should I "compromise" your Slashdot account by going over to soylent news and signing up as Lab Rat Jason?
The problem is median doesn't take into account capabilities because you can bet your bottom dollar that out of all your customers waaaay more than half are not interested in a faster speed, but rather a lower cost service.
They cut her internet access. Than sent her an email about it.
These are the folks developing cars that drive themselves.
I thought long and hard about this and still don't understand the problem. Are you suggesting there are people who have fibre to their houses but don't have at least 3 internet subscriptions for various devices in their houses from which they can read an email?
If this were some rural dial-up then sure, I'd sort of understand. But really this day and age your home internet going doing has no bearing on your ability to read your emails.
That's not a question about TV, you're talking about the material broadcast in the USA as a specific and very tiny subset of the "television" that Farnsworth helped invent.
What's there to be sad about in a device: - Which brings joy to millions. - Which allows wide spread discemination of information. - Which provides methods of entertainment as well as information both broadcast as video and as data. - Which has a critical role in protecting people during emerging emergency situations.
If he sees his invention in a sad light then he's either narrow minded or suffering some form of severe clinical depression.
Given that it was an evolution of a continued set of RFCs and standards that slowly and gradually became what you call an email when you send it today, I'm keen to see if you can define an email as something unique that actually correctly incorporates the history that went into its making.
Why would most people and Apple fans purchase an iPhone in June or July, provided that the new iPhone is to be announced a few weeks later?
You have that backwards. Apple enjoys a 1 quarter spike in sales on the month of a new phone. Their sales are very much flat for the rest of the year with the month before a new product announcement being only marginally lower than the preceding months. Huawei overtaking Apple in June and July means they are also quite likely to beat apple January, February, March, April.... etc
In some cases it's not even lower. Depending on the leaks and interest driven for the new phone. E.g. The quarter before the iPhone 6 launch actually had better sales than earlier in the year.
With the current record of manufacturers and carriers not giving a damn about porting the Android updates to their products
Who are those? The vast majority of vendors based on their current record have no problem at all issuing you patches even for older devices. They do however with-hold OS updates. You want Oreo? Fuck you, here have yet another minor point update to Jellybean instead.
When I last moved from my ISP they kept sending me a letter saying that my account was $1.50 in credit. They sent me that letter every month for over 2 years. That's how to fuck em. Let it cost them.
Care to inform me why the fuck me, or anyone who has at least parts of his mental health remaining, would want to buy such a device?
With several billions of smartphones in the world and several 10s of thousands of people at the most interested in custom ROMs or potentially downgrading firmware (which can't be done without voiding the warranty on any current smartphone anyway),...
care to inform me why anyone bar a rounding error of people would give a damn?
Tane tried to pay but Google wouldn't take checks for less than $10.
Most of the world doesn't take checks for more than $10 either. What kind of archaic payment methods do you use in the USA? Don't you have a bill payment system tied to the banking system that can simply take care of such thing with a simple key press?
If I need to send 1c to a company to pay a bill I just jump on my banking website, click pay bill, type in a biller code and 1c and done.
The only point where this fails is when they owe me money. Then they normally revert to standard methods like bank transfer or credit card refunds.
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Equifax Breach is Very Possibly the Worst Leak of Personal Info Ever so far.
It will be very hard to top this. In this case we have half of a population with personal info detailed enough to effectively steal identity in multiple ways, of a group of people who have no business with the company, and who may not know that their personal information is part of it. That is the real problem here. The sheer size and almost covert scope given that none of these people are customers of Equifax and I'm sure nearly all people have no idea who this company even is.
About the only thing that could top this is major breach of a government site like the IRS, and even then the possibilities of achieving such scope limit you to the government departments of only a few companies.
Yes.
In other news I also don't wear a tinfoil hat, the CIA did not drop the trade centre, and we did actually step on the moon.
There's increasing talk of regulating the fuel.
There's no "talk" on the fuel side of the regulation. There's actual action which refineries are already gearing up to support. One big one is by 2020 there needs to be a 3% reduction in sulfur in open oceans (down to 0.5%). The last change happened only in 2015 where controlled area sulfur was reduced by 0.9% down to 0.1%.
There is talk on the burning of it side though with the actual emissions not being regulated yet. It's much easier to regulate what goes in the tank than what comes out of the exhaust in the middle of the ocean.
Just write your extension to Chrome. It should be trivial to port to Firefox as that was one of the points of using WebExtensions.
But since they're trying to actively kill the plugin development community
By releasing a more secure API that makes it easy to port code between browsers, easier to maintain, and reduces the endless cycle of constantly breaking plugins?
Did you actually mean "frustrated coders sick of their shit" when you wrote "development community"?
When a fairly simple technology like this hasn't caught on for over a century, there's probably a good reason for it.
Yes because we know everything right off the bat. There certainly hasn't been any advances in transport that has gained wide spread adoption over half a century after the discovery of the mode of transport. /Sarcasm
For a practical example see Winglets. Invented in 1897, patented for aircraft use in 1930, didn't even get considered for passenger aircraft until the late 80s, and now because of the large fuel savings and stability you get for this over 100 year old invention you won't find a passenger aircraft without them.
If you don't have the cash then you can't afford that car.
That is possibly the dumbest comment I've ever seen. The ability to afford is about balancing incoming and outgoing finances, not about accumulating mountains of cash.
If that was your criteria then as a well paid engineer I wouldn't have been able to "afford" my car for the first 6 months of my working life.
(I could and did afford it, along side holidays, other luxury spending and also house repayments).
This is a good thing. A privacy breach generally goes unpunished. Insider trading on the other hand...
It is an imperfect national identifier because you cannot change it when compromised
You're doing exactly what the GP said not to do. An SSN is an identifier, not an Authenticator. It is not possible to compromise an identifier any more than another person who has the same name as you "compromises" your name.
Or should I "compromise" your Slashdot account by going over to soylent news and signing up as Lab Rat Jason?
There is a real alternative. It's call Piracy.
The problem is median doesn't take into account capabilities because you can bet your bottom dollar that out of all your customers waaaay more than half are not interested in a faster speed, but rather a lower cost service.
The art of lying with statistics.
They cut her internet access. Than sent her an email about it.
These are the folks developing cars that drive themselves.
I thought long and hard about this and still don't understand the problem. Are you suggesting there are people who have fibre to their houses but don't have at least 3 internet subscriptions for various devices in their houses from which they can read an email?
If this were some rural dial-up then sure, I'd sort of understand. But really this day and age your home internet going doing has no bearing on your ability to read your emails.
Hhahaha funny enough the only person I know who works for Google, works in the Google Drive division and is female.
Make of that anecdote what you will :-)
*Kidding she's a walking genius.
That's not a question about TV, you're talking about the material broadcast in the USA as a specific and very tiny subset of the "television" that Farnsworth helped invent.
What's there to be sad about in a device:
- Which brings joy to millions.
- Which allows wide spread discemination of information.
- Which provides methods of entertainment as well as information both broadcast as video and as data.
- Which has a critical role in protecting people during emerging emergency situations.
If he sees his invention in a sad light then he's either narrow minded or suffering some form of severe clinical depression.
Only for the models without removable batteries. To fix this problem you need to hard reset it with the following procedure:
1. Remove back cover from phone.
2. Remove battery with teeth.
3. Eat battery.
4. Reassemble phone.
5. Dip reassembled phone in milk.
5 - evil edition : Put phone back in packet and give to sister.
Go on. Define email.
Given that it was an evolution of a continued set of RFCs and standards that slowly and gradually became what you call an email when you send it today, I'm keen to see if you can define an email as something unique that actually correctly incorporates the history that went into its making.
Tip: No one invented email.
TV got old and senile, is boring everyone with old stories, and sometimes rehashing them thinking we won't recognise the repeat.
Why would most people and Apple fans purchase an iPhone in June or July, provided that the new iPhone is to be announced a few weeks later?
You have that backwards. Apple enjoys a 1 quarter spike in sales on the month of a new phone. Their sales are very much flat for the rest of the year with the month before a new product announcement being only marginally lower than the preceding months. Huawei overtaking Apple in June and July means they are also quite likely to beat apple January, February, March, April .... etc
In some cases it's not even lower. Depending on the leaks and interest driven for the new phone. E.g. The quarter before the iPhone 6 launch actually had better sales than earlier in the year.
Some of the more responsible manufacturers have agreed to stop using them.
So no one then.
Fortunately they'll all start soon as legislation will slowly force the issue.
climactic ending - I can't wait!
Spoiler alert it's humans eating fish who drink plastic.
With the current record of manufacturers and carriers not giving a damn about porting the Android updates to their products
Who are those? The vast majority of vendors based on their current record have no problem at all issuing you patches even for older devices. They do however with-hold OS updates. You want Oreo? Fuck you, here have yet another minor point update to Jellybean instead.
When I last moved from my ISP they kept sending me a letter saying that my account was $1.50 in credit. They sent me that letter every month for over 2 years. That's how to fuck em. Let it cost them.
I hope the first thing it prints is a giant penis.
Care to inform me why the fuck me, or anyone who has at least parts of his mental health remaining, would want to buy such a device?
With several billions of smartphones in the world and several 10s of thousands of people at the most interested in custom ROMs or potentially downgrading firmware (which can't be done without voiding the warranty on any current smartphone anyway), ...
care to inform me why anyone bar a rounding error of people would give a damn?
Tane tried to pay but Google wouldn't take checks for less than $10.
Most of the world doesn't take checks for more than $10 either. What kind of archaic payment methods do you use in the USA? Don't you have a bill payment system tied to the banking system that can simply take care of such thing with a simple key press?
If I need to send 1c to a company to pay a bill I just jump on my banking website, click pay bill, type in a biller code and 1c and done.
The only point where this fails is when they owe me money. Then they normally revert to standard methods like bank transfer or credit card refunds.