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jimnotgym | 9 days ago

Great, who from PayPal is going to jail over this?

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zer00eyz|9 days ago

Wow!

Lets take the article at face value: "The financial technology company said it has reversed the code change that caused the incident, blocking attackers' access to the data one day after discovering the breach."

Great thats your bug. Key word here being BUG. Your name next to the commit that caused this.

Should you go to prison? Probably not.

Tell me you never had a bug, a security hole, never took production down. Never made a mistake. Tell me that you want to go to jail for human error. Not intent, error.

erremerre|9 days ago

When a bridge falls, there is a case in the courts, and sometimes engineers go to prison.

Why shall be different with code?

timmytokyo|8 days ago

Accountability is for suckers, I guess.

bloomingeek|9 days ago

I've been thinking this way for several years now, what a fool I was! Corporations are the elite of society now. They can't fail, they pay off everyone of any importance, i.e., not you or I. The dog and pony show in congress involving FB is further proof they can do no wrong as long as they explain the law to the dolts in congress. (While being watched by SCOTUS, who are laughing their asses off.)

The rule of the corporate thumbs for several decades now is: it's more profitable to pay a fine then follow the law. (And if congress isn't keeping up with current tech which needs new laws to protect consumers, who cares?)

chrneu|9 days ago

They're people but also not people!

Lol what an amazing con the oligarchs managed to pull. They get to reap all the rewards of their parasitic selfish behavior with basically none of the risk. Just make a corp.