The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem

Re:The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem by ensignavenger on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:53PM (#15314754)

A less weaselly way to say it would have been to say " Rep. Loudermilk, Barry [R-GA] along with 13 republican co-sponsers proposed ..." and then linked to the list of who they are, like you did.

Further, this was filed long before the breech, yet the piece tries to say that these representatives were doing it "despite" the breech was made public. Some of those listed may still be backing this, and it was (likely, I haven't read it myself) terrible legislation to begin with, but based on the evidence available, it is stretching to make the claims that the opinion piece does about them doing it "even as" the fallout from the breech is settling.

While I am glad they are covering the proposed legislation and bringing it to the publics attention, the piece is worded in a very weasely way.

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Re:The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem by TFortunato on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:06PM (#15314859)

I'll give you the point about the way it was worded w.r.t. when the breach was announced. On that though, I did want to point out that if you look at the list of co-sponsors, the last person to sponsor it was Rep Williams of Texas, ON 9/7/17, the day Equifax announced the breach, which is probably just really bad timing that day on his / his staff's part, but also looks LOOKS really terrible, regardless of the actual reason behind it.

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