Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by justsomeuser on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:10PM (#23992967)

> How can you prove a negative?

I think in science you cannot "prove a negative" because you cannot observe all the events in the system (the universe).

But if you can observe all events in a system (Amazons data access logs) I think you can "prove a negative" by proving that the data was not accessed.

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Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by throwaway98797 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:16PM (#23993002)

So employee A who should access data sees it and than tells employee B who shouldn’t.

Breached and now you lied to Congress. You can’t control everything that happens in your company.

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Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by justsomeuser on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:22PM (#23993040)

Agreed, once data passes via human-human communication its not possible to observe 100%.

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Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by steffan on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:16PM (#23993337)

I think it's a logical fallacy to assume you can "observe all events" in any non-trivial system, particularly where there are humans on the edges.

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