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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by jairuhme on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @08:56AM (#38530710)
How do you make the leap to it being an issue of capitalism? There are plenty of bad actors who could use this information (or other hacked info) who are not a corporation seeking profit.
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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by lvass on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:54AM (#38531568)
Like North Korea which by far has the most state sponsored cyber thugs per capita.
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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by uoaei on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:59AM (#38533509)
Capitalism isn't about corporations, it's about capital.
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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:26PM (#38536479)
Yeah, I didn't mean 'a philosophical ideal of Capitalism'. Apologies for my imprecise question. I meant Western Capitalism which of course is a form of corporatism.
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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by cjaybo on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:08PM (#38534669)
It’s the ideological form of “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
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