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Re:Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressio... by speedplane on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:55AM (#15399308)
If the legal team came up with this idea, they need a new legal team. In house lawyers do not have to be technical experts, but they should know about cyber-squatting and DNS related fraud. This should have been in their wheelhouse.
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Re:Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressio... by KekDemaga on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:55AM (#15399549)
The head of infosec was a music major so the head of legal probably has a degree in dance theory.
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Re:Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressio... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @08:01AM (#15399845)
What your undergrad is in really doesn't mean anything if you've got experience, especially if you got it at a time when most schools didn't have cyber-security programs/concentrations within CS and CS was more closely aligned with math.

Some of the best infosec people I know have completely irrelevant degrees.

That said, I'm not trying to make excuses for Equifax. From what we know the head of infosec there was not qualified to do the job.

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Re:Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressio... by adaml_623 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @08:31AM (#15399958)
They could just deactivate the domain but leave it registered
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