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Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To"
Posted: Fri, 14 June 2024 | permalink | 2 Comments Whenever a large corporation disgorges the personal information of millions of people onto the Internet, there is a standard playbook that is followed. “Security is our top priority”.
Not being a disaster comms specialist, I can’t say for sure, but my hunch is that the post-breach playbook includes this line because (a) credit cards are less commonly breached these days (more on that later), and (b) it’s a way to insinuate that “all your financial data is safe, no need to worry” without having to say that (because that statement would absolutely be a lie). In terms of actual, long-term damage to individuals, credit card fraud barely rates a mention. It’s felt by the victim of intimate partner violence whose new address is found in a data dump, letting their ex find them again.
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