Hackers breach chocolate recipe on Hershey website Hackers breached the security of a website operated by US confectionery giant Hershey Company and may have made off with customers' names, birthdates, street and email addresses, and site passwords. In an email sent to customers last week, Hershey said an unauthorized individual accessed the site and changed a baking recipe for …
This reg reader suggests everyone uses 1/1/1970 as their birthdate on every site with no need to know and lie about everything that doesn't compromise your use of sites. As a habit.
I also love responding to phishing. With completely false details. What we really need is a set of trigger CC accounts that automagically trigger fraud detection, might catch a few more scumbags.
.... hows about these "hackers" et al snitch the data sets etc etc to highlight a vulnerability in said websites, then promise not to divulge it unless and until said websites vulnerabilities have been fixed PRONTO. They could even offer to assist in that regard. Then some verifiable and trusted testing body could run attack vectors, whatever, to determine that the fix was good and the data could go back whence it came, all tidy like. Of course, the body responsible for hosting /constructing the web presence where said data was held would have to foot the bill for all this, as a lesson to all other peeps that wish to retain our / your data in such a manner.
Would that just not be exciting enough ?, although possibly more efficient and conducive to the common good.
* (the above does not, nor is it intended to, cover examples of data sets held illegally / dishonestly for nefarious purposes by guberment authorities with things to hide from those that democratically elect them etc etc.)
"then promise not to divulge it unless and until said websites vulnerabilities have been fixed.."
That would be never then.
A better solution would be a timed escrow - i.e. you have 3 weeks to fix your site before this goes public.
That way they have warning and a reasonable timeframe to fix or at the very least quarantine the problem.
s/vegetable oil/cocoa butter/g
Hershey officials were heard to say "We knew it was hacked right off. I mean, making chocolate with cocoa butter? Who'd be that stupid!"
(sad to say, but Hershey *used* to be a cool company - they donated tens of millions of dollars to orphanages back when a dollar was still 1/35 oz. of gold. But the beancounters took over, and started cheapening the product. And that is why I don't buy Hershey products anymore.)
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I've never knowingly eaten a Hershey's bar, I do love chocolate, especially dark chocolate (ocassionally 75% cocoa) and Thorntons, I find Cadbury's milk chocolate a little too milky at times though and always try to avoid any food that says "chocolate flavour" in the description.
Damn this news story and all your choclatey replies, I've now got a craving for some Lindt mint chocolate which is made with 47% cocoa.
Yes, yes it is.
It tastes like it is made of a mixture of vomit and despair.
And my favourite chocolate is dairy milk (all that high cocoa stuff is OK I suppose, but there are too many choco-ponces around who seem to think someone's worth is measured by the percentage of cocoa in their choice of chocolate).
I'll keep avoiding Hershey's then :)
BTW the dark chocolate thing, I'm allergic to dairy products, don't eat beef anymore and avoid milk & milk products so the higher cocoa levels of chocolate has less negative impact on my stomach, and I do like the taste of dark chocolate more than milk chocolate.
Actually it's even worse.
An American friend of mine gave all us Brits some Hershey's kisses. We were convinced she was trying to make us leave, they were that bad.
She has since been converted, as have her entire family. She now has to send choccy food parcels back to the USA!
(For some reason this reply was rejected by a moderator - WHY? It is perfectly true, and others have described the taste as "vomit"! Would you like to speak to my friends family in Colorado to verify the authenticity?)
I agree with the others - if you're concerned with your privacy, it's easy enough to lie when filling out registration email.
But to the author of this article - you need to check your facts. The reason why websites require birthdates is a legal matter. In many countries, you can't directly market to childern under the age of 13, so if the company wants to send emails to their members, users must provide a birthdate during so the website can cover their a$$.
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