Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in...
by ryandrake on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:15PM
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Exactly. Can every piece of data logged be tied back to a legitimate business purpose? What’s needed here is a mentality change: These logs should be thought of as liabilities rather than assets. You should log only what you need, while you need it, and then turn off the log when you’re done. If your mentality is “log everything, always, because maybe we’ll need it later” then these privacy and security trash fires should be expected.
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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in...
by viraptor on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:24PM
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Log everything: you don't care about privacy.
Treat logs as liabilities: why can't you solve the issue I experienced yesterday?
You can't win. Either you log more than you think you need right now or you can't do engineering investigations on past data. You're going to end up somewhere in the middle realistically.