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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by xkcd-sucks on Saturday November 23, 2019 @02:00PM (#21615795)
While I don't think blaming labor is constructive or ethical, it seems like most tools pose danger to users in proportion to utility. For example, cars can squish people, electricity can fry people, and power tools can remove limbs.

Typically, people start out using knives and bicycles as children, learn through experience that crashing and getting cut hurt, and carry those lessons forward when they start using tablesaws and cars later in life. How does this apply to elasticsearch? I have no idea.

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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by z3t4 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:54AM (#21620121)
We could teach our children that software is very dangerous, especially databases. Or we could make software secure by default. But we also need to teach the user how to use the software properly. Learning by getting hurt is effective, but then we also need to have playgrounds.
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