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"In 2017, Equifax suffered the worst data-breach in world history, leaking the
deep, nonconsensual dossiers it had compiled on 148m Americans and 15m Britons,
(and 19k Canadians) into the world, to form an immortal, undeletable reservoir
of kompromat and premade identity-theft kits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach
Equifax knew the breach was coming. It wasn't just that their top execs
liquidated their stock in Equifax before the announcement of the breach – it
was also that they ignored
years of increasingly urgent warnings from IT
staff about the problems with their server security.
Things didn't improve after the breach. Indeed, the 2017 Equifax breach was the
starting gun for a string of more breaches, because Equifax's servers didn't
just have one fubared system – it was
composed of pure, refined fubar. After
one group of hackers breached the main Equifax system, other groups breached
other Equifax systems, over and over, and over:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-password-username-admin-lawsuit-201118316.html
Doesn't this remind you of Boeing? It reminds me of Boeing. The spectacular 737
Max failures in 2018 weren't the end of the scandal. They weren't even the
scandal's
start – they were the
tipping point, the moment in which a long
history of lethally defective planes "breached" from the world of aviation
wonks and into the wider public consciousness:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737
Just like with Equifax, the 737 Max disasters tipped Boeing into a string of
increasingly grim catastrophes. Each fresh disaster landed with the grim
inevitability of your general contractor texting you that he's just opened up
your ceiling and discovered that all your joists had rotted out – and that he
won't be able to deal with that until he deals with the termites he found last
week, and that they'll have to wait until he gets to the cracks in the
foundation slab from the week before, and that
those will have to wait until
he gets to the asbestos he just discovered in the walls.
Drip, drip, drip, as you realize that the most expensive thing you own – which
is also the thing you had hoped to shelter for the rest of your life – isn't
even a teardown, it's just a pure liability. Even if you razed the structure,
you couldn't start over, because the soil is full of PCBs. It's not a toxic
asset, because it's not an asset. It's just toxic."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
