Google+ to shut down after coverup of data breach

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 6:20 PM UTC

Post by Latteland » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

beaner wrote: post #3

The title says "data breach," but that's not what actually happened. They had a security vulnerability and fixed it. Yes, that's bad, but the title makes it sound like it was exploited, which would have been worse.

Post by Latteland » Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

guessmyname wrote: post #5

Latteland wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And where's the dup entry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169266