Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability
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Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability
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#2It's a bit funny how it mentions these two things together in the same article:
> Today, almost every piece of software comes with a disclaimer on its user license that basically says that the product may not work as intended […] and that’s the user’s problem. It’s a wonder companies don’t insert “nyah nyah nyah nyah” into the tiny-print legalese.
> No software system can be free from bugs […]
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#3'Less Secure Than You Think'
http://www.cnmeonline.com/myresources/fireeye/fireeye-cso-le...
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#4It's a bit funny how it mentions these two things together in the same article: > Today, almost every piece of software comes with a disclaimer on its user license that basically says that the product may not work as intended […] and that’s the user’s problem. It’s a wonder companies don’t insert “nyah nyah nyah nyah” into the tiny-print legalese. > No software system can be free from bugs […]
I read a consistent argument. Expecting perfection is wrong. Expecting consumers to shoulder the vast majority of the costs of that imperfection is also wrong.
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#5It's a bit funny how it mentions these two things together in the same article: > Today, almost every piece of software comes with a disclaimer on its user license that basically says that the product may not work as intended […] and that’s the user’s problem. It’s a wonder companies don’t insert “nyah nyah nyah nyah” into the tiny-print legalese. > No software system can be free from bugs […]
I read a consistent argument. Expecting perfection is wrong. Expecting consumers to shoulder the vast majority of the costs of that imperfection is also wrong.
One way or another, I think that consumers are bound to shoulder those costs.
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#6Now would be a great time to go long EFX in my opinion.
The stock has been slammed while Equifax is being flogged in the court of public opinion, but I doubt this leak will have any lasting financial impact.
Look at the result of the Target and Home Depot breaches: whether you like it or not, the companies are still technically the victims here and no court is going to bankrupt them for data breaches that are more and more becoming the norm.
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#7The problem is incompetence in our industry. Anyone who has worked long enough knows that technical competency is not rewarded (outside a few rare firms) in software engineering.
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#8Americans woke up to news of yet another mass breach of their personal data.
Americans woke up to news of yet another mass breach of data about them.
FTFY
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#9It's a bit funny how it mentions these two things together in the same article: > Today, almost every piece of software comes with a disclaimer on its user license that basically says that the product may not work as intended […] and that’s the user’s problem. It’s a wonder companies don’t insert “nyah nyah nyah nyah” into the tiny-print legalese. > No software system can be free from bugs […]
I read a consistent argument. Expecting perfection is wrong. Expecting consumers to shoulder the vast majority of the costs of that imperfection is also wrong.
Expecting perfection is wrong.
There's 120 millions of lines of code in an A380, and planes don't crash due to software bugs. Why is it wrong to expect perfection in critical infrastructure?
Something went wrong somewhere in software engineering. My HP42s calculator has about 6 insignificant bugs that you need to get out of your way to trigger. Your new cellphone on the other hand, when you turn it on it downloads a gigabyte of updates! That's an outrage.
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#10It's a bit funny how it mentions these two things together in the same article: > Today, almost every piece of software comes with a disclaimer on its user license that basically says that the product may not work as intended […] and that’s the user’s problem. It’s a wonder companies don’t insert “nyah nyah nyah nyah” into the tiny-print legalese. > No software system can be free from bugs […]
No economical product manufacturing process can be free from defects. And yet we enforce strict liability for defects leading to injury.