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soon quit smoking cigarettes! In the real world "hind sight is
20/20", meaning you make a mistake and you learn from it.
The problem with this situation is that there shouldn't have been
any mistakes from the beginning. Technology is not the same as
everything else in this world. Technology represent's something
that has forethought in it, a sense of "I need to make sure that
this is a secure system before I tell everybody that's it's secure".
The business and marketing practices of these companies was
just plain wrong. They have put our society at risk of identiy
theft, drained bank accounts, not to mention results that tip the
scale at stalking. All of this and more to get that extra buck.
When a company get's to the point that the money over powers
the need for customer security and satisfaction, when it get's to
that point, then the company is no longer in it for the people.
They are in it to fill there pockets at whatever expense they feel
the need to grab that extra penny. Enough so to put hundred's
of thousands of people at risk. The is no reprieve at this time for
a company like that, only demise.
Just a though...there have been less than a handfull of big
companies that have actually admitted to having a security
breach. The reality of it all: You've all been breached at some
time!
I'm gone....-Justin