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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by enraged_camel on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:27AM (#18140767)
I mean what are they gonna say? "Yes, we have been aware that an unknown but possibly huge number of our servers have been compromised, but decided to keep our customers in the dark"?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by fcantournet on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:42AM (#18140915)
Your point being ?
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by crunchlibrarian on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:06PM (#18141123)
I think the point is that actual honesty from these megacorps would be so surprising that even raising the possibility of it happening is so absurd it feels like parody writing.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by BryantD on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:50PM (#18141542)
Last week Facebook was reasonably transparent about a hack affecting tens of millions of users.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by crunchlibrarian on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:57PM (#18141598)
This may be the first time in the history of the internet a statement from Facebook has ever been held up as an example of honesty and transparency from a corporation in America.

The GDPR has already called out Facebook for lack of info in its response to the breach: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/facebooks-muddy-account-brea...

Not sure why you'd pick that example.

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by BryantD on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:27PM (#18144239)
Mostly because I believe that, while it's important to maintain healthy skepticism around privacy and security issues, I also believe that we don't benefit from cynical hyperbole.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by enraged_camel on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:51PM (#18142511)
That's because they have been under tremendous scrutiny recently.
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