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Re:Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach to Collect $90M on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:08AM (#15363359)
Where is the CIO/CTO in all of this? Would we expect a US President (or any Chief Executive of any country) to understand the importance of two-factor authentication? Or to audit his Nuclear Football? How many breaches of the VA occurred and we do not blame the President. We do criticize the response to these breeches and this CEO's response is "Thanks for all the fish," but we do tend to like it when heads roll; so I have no idea who is to actually be blamed and I think it is unreasonable to even begin assessing blame at this time.
Re:Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach to Collect $90M on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:01AM (#15363335)
I heard a commentator (I think from Forbes) say that it is bad that the CEO is leaving because you now have an additional crisis of finding a new one on top of the current mess. Although I suppose this assumes that the now retired CEO has knowledge of the company that is valuable... Time will tell.
Re:Equifax CEO Richard Smith Who Oversaw Breach to Collect $90M on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:58AM (#15363329)
Anything pre-dating the fractional reserve system. Allowing entities to create value from no effort is not raising capital. Fractional Reserve systems lessen the skin-in-the-game spoken of earlier and transfer to societal decision making from the people doing the work and taking the risk to bureaucracies that are 'too big to fail'.
Re:Debunking SQRL on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:48AM (#15363297)
SQRL is very close to being released. I thought this article and the comments were interesting and am curious as to what we think about 'passwordless' authentication. For updated information go to https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

Thoughts?