If they were using Windows it would have randomly reinstalled the entire operating system one night when they shut down though. Guess it's time to switch! lol

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I'd hardly call several lawsuits and FBi investigations a "slap on the wrist."

Peter Villa That doesn't help the millions of people that are now affected on a process that we didn't even ask this company to handle.

It is just a slap on the wrist because no one will go to prison for this. The rich never do.

+Keith Treason Yeah lol, even if the "little people" is 90% of American adults. It's the 90% with the least amount of money anyways, the 1 percenters are fine.

I don't even hate the rich, but they have it way too easy when it comes to justice. Lay off the excessive taxes, but for the love of God, punish them when they break the law!

Hehe. Sucks to be an adult :P but no seriously I feel bad for the people affected by this

The whole credit system is bs to begin with. For example, being responsible enough with your money that you don't need to borrow means you have no credit and are seen as super risky. Like wtf?

If you haven't proven that you can responsibly deal with more money than you are capable of making on your own (the reason you get loans) then you are super risky.

The whole thing of needing more money than you are capable of earning is the bogus thing. It looks like a long term wealthy transference from people who produce to people who speculate within the financial market.

Peter Villa people have to deal with recurring payments even without borrowing money. Rent, utilities, phone/internet contracts, etc all require budgeting skills not significantly different than making payments on borrowed money. A long period of being responsible enough to avoid borrowing is more of an indication of someone taking borrowing money seriously than someone constantly using credit for everyday things, but your credit score will not show that.

Lorenzo Pagani that's very common in the industry. People often forget how new the Internet is. Computer science is a very new major.

An fyi. Most computer experts don't have a degree in anything close to computers

Yep. Engineers, mathematicians and physicists were the original IT experts.

Well, I say mathematicians and physicists, but a physicist is really a mathematician that has some creativity.

She already resigned... or got fired, i don't remember, but she's out.

The problem is that the common ancestors are mostly-to-entirely microbes, and those generally leave very poor fossil records, if any.

"mostly-to-entirely microbes" not at all the ones I'm talking about. There were hundreds of millions of years between when there were just microbes and the Cambrian explosion. Those hundreds of millions of years, during the Ediacaran Period 542 - 635 million years ago (ma), the Cryogenian Period 635 - ~850 ma and the Tonian Period, ~850 - ~1000 ma, are rife with macroscopic, multicellular organisms that are the common ancestors of our 3 kingdoms of life up here on land. I understand the fossils are difficult to find and keep together because of all the geologic activity since then, along with their soft bodies, but they were far from microscopic. Dickinsonian fossils managed to get up to 1.4 meters in diameter for instance. Heck, even stromatalites 3.7 billion years ago may have been up to a meter or more in diameter, though they are composed of many smaller organisms, they are evidence of some of the earliest mulicellular colonies. Thats 3 billion years our history, from stromatalites to dickinsonians that we have a loose grasp of. The world can benefit from a common knowledge of our ancestors, looking back, and going forward, and Scishow is as an ideal medium to disperse that knowledge as it comes to light.

Vance JQ it's still a very important part of the scandal that shows just how aware they were of the flaws

It's social science.

AK Milli yes, because they knew that mentioning this would drop their stocks

It's insider trading, if you have concrete knowledge that a stock is about to drastically change in value you are not allowed to trade in it.

Rob Fraser so if a company new product is failing, isent that then technically not allowed to sell? Because I can see ?

krisisnkaos or the audit team was ignored by profit driven management who can't see the long term benefit

Zander Rossman True. Gotta hate that. Fortunately for us consumers, bringing an organization's network and data into compliance with the SOX Act is unavoidable these days and comes with heavy penalties. Adequate control structure is crucial. Lax risk assessments, brushing past controls, poor judgment calls, etc. likely resulted in what happened here. It wouldn't fly with just about any oversight committee, especially when the risk is this high.

tyler134789 rookie move buddy, I always label my folder as "Internet Explorer and Bing shortcuts"

What about your, "definitely does not have secrets in it," folder?

Joe Johnson That, or you could hide it in a folder full of things that are also things you'd want to hide, just not as much as those, to sort of smokescreen ...I think you maybe get what I mean

hmm... maybe I should re-name my 'World Annihilation' bookmark folder.

^^^ that's genius!

Oh, you.

dinamyter Probably the closest any of these jokes will ever get to bring funny

To the top my friendly comment! TO THE TOP!

That's not what Sonia said.

It was someone with a degree, in music . not IT or computer security or even a previous Apple Store employee

Kalvin N that is true, but that is common in technology companies. Tech moves so fast that certifications like ccna carry more weight than a college degree. The person in charge of IT at Equifax knew about the vulnerability and they had a plan to implement the fix. But it requires the servers to go offline to implement. This would result in lost transactions. There was no good fix. It was either fix it and have the servers go down losing transactions and the four 9 rating or not fix it and lose integrity. Bad place for them to be, I feel sorry for them knowing that they are likely blacklisted from ever being in a technology position again.

busi magen 2:05-2:17 This wasn't just an os update, this was a complete rewrite of the hierarchy of how the script runs on every single app on every single server. More than one person is to blame, the programmers for their oversight on the code injection, the IT lead for not pushing the update hard enough, the people below the IT lead for not pushing it harder. It's the same as SQL injections on traffic cams, we need to think forwards.

+Kieran M It was a woman, not a man.

Jesse Crandle sorry, I started with neutral pronouns and switched accidentally later. I'll fix it.

I'm sure corporate nature and groupthink had a role here too, the system where the engineers and experts who see the problem are shut up by the profit driven managers who don't see the immediate benefit.

'Typhoon' comes from the Japanese word, 台風 (taifū). Japan is in the Northern hemisphere.

That's correct. Good for you.

There is no such thing as an Internet security degree.

feel free to crawl back to your hole www.usf.edu/cybersecurity/

That is a CyberSecurity Degree not "Internet Security".

LOL it seems you haven't properly read my comment, I can't be bother with someone who can't read. I'm sure your will believe what ever you want whether fact or fiction no need to waste my time.

Seems like the writer of this comment didn't have an intelligence degree. Oh that's not a thing? I'll just live on in ignorance then...

He said lichen. As in moss.

chinchenping Sure, another black hat...

And then a chinese bootleg company will make an NES game out of it and confuse jontron.

You know, stuff taught in network coding 101. I'm not even a programmer and I know you never, ever, EVER trust user input.

There's an xkcd for this

thealmostfreerunner xkcd.com/327/

We have to pay medical bills. It's almost impossible to get big loans for those.

It's not so bad, we're just big kids, really.

Sucks to be a kid if your parent's wealth just disappeared.

It does to some extent, you have to provide your own food and shelter and pay for your own amusement instead of relying on other people to do so. But on the other side, an adult has way, waaaay more options as to how he may attend to those needs, even if adults mostly stick to just fancier versions of the same options kids have. So, yeah, it mostly sucks.

As a teen it scares me knowing that I'm gonna have so many responsibilities and if I do something wrong I can lose all my money

But like, losing money to the point of losing everything I have

It is actually with permission, there was a law passed in the 1970s that gave Equifax and 2 other companies basically a monopoly for the companies that can store your credit score and that kind of stuff because before then there were a lot of imposters running around selling credit score services that were fake.

MOI TV first go to the Equifax website and find the link to check to see if you were affected. I was. Then run a credit report from all three credit departments to make sure everything is good. Then on each of their websites they have a link to where you can freeze your credit. Freezing your credit, offers the best way to lock down your credit,when frozen you can still build credit but you can't take out any loans, apply for credit cards, mortgages etc.so if someone has your info it's virtually useless because they can't establish anything with it. you are given a 16 digit pin at the time you freeze your credit that only you know and that's the only way to unlock it. There is a fee of $10 to lock and unlock Equifax is free but $10 is pennies compared to being robbed out of thousands of dollars