Personal data of 2.9M people leaked from Desjardins

Re:Personal data of 2.9M people leaked from Desjardins by Scoundreller on Thursday June 20, 2019 @04:04PM (#20236779)

Letsee, 5 minutes of wasted time per impacted client (and that’s just to interpret and ignore the notice) * 2.9 million people = 28 years of life lost by one action.

Basically a murder in terms of aggregate impact.

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Re:Personal data of 2.9M people leaked from Desjardins by abledon on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:34PM (#20238527)

Lol with that logic most developers who implement an annoying pop up banner subscription/greeting chain combo on a high traffic site are committing an action equal to murder

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Re:Personal data of 2.9M people leaked from Desjardins by Scoundreller on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:46PM (#20238598)

The maintainers of uBlock Origin have a lot of "Get out of Jail" credits to exchange if they ever need to.

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Re:Personal data of 2.9M people leaked from Desjardins by ZeroFries on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:44PM (#20238142)

Wasting 10s of 5 billion people's time = 1585 years of life or 27 lives, but I think most would agree killing 27 people is far worse. You can't really equate the two.

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Re:Personal data of 2.9M people leaked from Desjardins by Scoundreller on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:50PM (#20238625)

These comparisons happen all the time in government.

Do you get more value out of spending $1m (ie: 100 000 person hours of taxes at $10/hr) on saving a few people's lives through improving a highway's safety, through a vaccination program, or an exercise program?

Or just let people keep an extra $10, take an hour off work, and lose 0.0003% of their life (on average!) by increasing their risk of harm in a highway collision?

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