Posts by spacecadet66 115 posts • joined 20 May 2014
Nowhere in the story does it say that the data was stored in US servers. The hacked servers are described as "self-hosted," so if the servers were administered by the universities, the onus of GPDR compliance was on them.
Which doesn't make any of this look any better for Blackbaud, of course.
Well it's not like there's a handy top-10 list, that you might expect all Web developers to be familiar with, of common Internet security flaws...[checks notes]...oh wait there is.
https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/, the instant blunder is #5, "Broken Access Control."
Hopefully the penalty in this case will be high enough to make people sit up and take notice.
I'm not usually one for banning technologies, but I think I would make an exception for facial recognition. I can't think of a single non-pernicious use for them (and no, I do not trust the police with them, don't @ me.)
Unfortunately, the people most likely to do the banning are also very interested in facial recognition.
I wonder how much this suit has to do with Danmore's conviction of the righteousness of his cause, versus Dhillon's political ambitions. My guess is the ratio is somewhere near a tad :: a whole lot.
I also don't see a path to him actually winning the case. Leaving aside the question of whether his arguments actually have any merit, he's facing Google's legal department and a Santa Clara County jury.
Why do official agencies in, say, California, communicate in Spanish? Because it's the first language of a significant number of people who live there. Where I live, there are large Portuguese and Brazilian populations, and you _do_ see government documents in Portuguese.
HTH, but I bet you already knew that somehow.
So predictable.
"One of the most important patterns of conservative message-making is projection. Projection is a psychological notion; it roughly means attacking someone by falsely claiming that they are attacking you. Conservative strategists engage in projection constantly."
--"What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?" http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.html
I can see how you could mistake a Jack Daniels flag for a Daesh one, if you'd never seen the JD logo and also you couldn't tell Arabic writing from English and also you had a very tiny brain.
That said, I'm not sure I'd want to live next to someone so proud of drinking the stuff. I used to drink that brand too, but then I turned 16.
The interesting thing: we have here an item made by people with far more money and technical acumen than common sense, who don't have to worry about working hard enough to break a sweat, and who live in a place where it gets cool enough to wear a light jacket. If you didn't know Silicon Valley existed, you could now deduce its existence.
IANAML, but the law is very clear on this point: no it isn't. That point was, coincidentally, also established in Germany--specifically in the Nuremberg trials. Here in the USA, William Calley famously attempted an "only following orders" defense when tried for his part in the My Lai massacre. This also failed. Today, the UCMJ (the code of laws pertaining strictly to the military in the USA) makes it clear that members of the military only have a duty to obey _lawful_ orders.
Nice try though.
"The engineers obviously were deeply involved in this business, but surely it's the management who decided to 1) instruct engineers to develop cheating software and 2) deploy the cheating software, who are the real villains here."
Yes, but he, the engineer, had an ethical duty that he reneged on. This particular ethical duty is backed up by a law, which is why he's in jail today. In a just world he wouldn't be the last one to wind up a guest of the state, but "I was only following orders" is a weak-sauce excuse that couldn't and shouldn't have cleared him here.
"I also still wonder why we don't get discounts at the self service tills when we're saving the store money."
When a business finds a way to cut their costs, they have a choice between two courses of action:
(a) Pass the savings on to the customer
(b) Pocket the savings
Guess which alternative virtually every business since the dawn of time has elected for.
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