Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Drivers, Company Confirms

Re:Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Driver... by logicallee on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:50AM (#9123204)

No, with all due respect, you're bullshit. Hacking my app is illegal. You're saying I shouldn't write a web app in the first place, just because I'm some guy and barely know the framework I'm using. Well, maybe you should go live in Somalia if you don't like a code of laws. I can't do security right. I can do a web app poorly, or nothing at all. You're saying, give the world nothing. I'm saying, sod off. I've had enough of perfectionists like you keeping people from making stuff.

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Re:Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Driver... by roel_v on Monday March 02, 2015 @03:18AM (#9130875)

Yeah, and fuck food safety regulations, because I'm just some schmuck who wants to operate a restaurant but can't be bothered to learn about how to do it properly so everybody who doesn't want to be poisoned shouldn't be such a bitch who'd prefer a steak without a side of e coli, right? And let's abolish drivers licenses too while we're at at, because anyone who wants to have a bare minimum of driving skill from other road users should just go live in Somalia, right?

Well actually, if you think it's OK to expose your user's data because you don't know what you're doing but think you deserve a piece of the startup gold rush pie anyway, it's you who should go live in Somalia and see what becomes of a 'society' of people who just do something with no oversight, skill of knowledge. If the choice is between 'doing it poorly' and 'nothing at all', then you should do 'nothing at all' because your actions affect other people. Basically you say 'screw my users, I can't be bothered to learn things properly but I want money anyway!'. Well, fuck you, you are the cause of all these problems, and you deserve everything that comes to you.

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Re:Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Driver... by q3k on Saturday February 28, 2015 @05:18AM (#9123335)

Using this train of thought, you probably don't even have a lock in your door - burglary is illegal!

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Re:Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Driver... by logicallee on Saturday February 28, 2015 @12:59PM (#9124418)

where did I say they shouldn't use accounts or passwords?

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Re:Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Driver... by vdaniuk on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:56AM (#9123213)

That's not perfectionism. His comment is an emotional simplification of a complex problem without any consideration of side effects. This is just like being "tough on crime" rhetoric of some politicians.

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Re:Uber Database Breach Exposed Information of 50,000 Driver... by blumkvist on Saturday February 28, 2015 @04:24AM (#9123269)

And how about your users? I bet they don't mind their private information stolen, because they support your airbnb for dogs?

Will you give your little speech about laws and how it's illegal to hack your website and people shouldn't have done it?

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