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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by sonnyblarney on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:08PM (#18278542)
Things are hacked often with a specific facility or installation in mind. It could be as little has a handful and that'd be enough to compromise a lot.

I actually don't care what the truth [edit: truth of this specific BMRG story] is - the West needs a 'wake up call' on this one and any company installing hardware should be inspecting everything that comes in.

Too much lax security out there, sadly, the US gov I don't think is competent enough in this area to provide guidelines.

I wish there was a CIO right in the White House cabinet, who could work with the Valley + Security experts to provide minimum guidelines for everyone, and to make everyone aware of certain things.

I'm glad the internet was designed to be 'open first' but not glad it was designed to be almost inherently insecure as well. 'Open but Secure' by default would be nice :)

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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by drb91 on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:51PM (#18278848)
> I actually don't care what the truth is

Why are you in this thread at all then?

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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by sonnyblarney on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:06PM (#18278967)
Because 'the truth of the Bloomberg story' is not important - what matters is 'what's actually happening' in the world. And this kind of hacking is definitely happening irrespective of how right/wrong the Bloomberg report is.
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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by drb91 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:28AM (#18280917)
So why are you rambling on about unrelated pet topics in HN threads?
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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by acct1771 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:47AM (#18280998)
Do you truly believe his point to be unrelated, this isn't a debate about GP's tone?

I think what parent touches on in their "tangent" is indeed the most important thing to come out of this story.

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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by drb91 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:19AM (#18281921)
I do truly believe it to be unrelated and veering into attractive-but-unsubstantiated conspiracy territory.
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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by sonnyblarney on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:36AM (#18283700)
The United States spends 10's of billions of dollars spying on it's enemies. They hack, install spyware, require backdoors, use phishing, social engineering. So does China, Russia etc. and this is not a conspiracy.
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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by acct1771 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:32AM (#18289948)
It IS a conspiracy.

What you said is not a conspiracy theory.

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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by sonnyblarney on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:21AM (#18290121)
Ha ha yes, you're right!
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Re:AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of ... by acct1771 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:31AM (#18289944)
I think you mean conspiracy theory.

Of course this event is a conspiracy.

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