The people that make the decisions don't care what happens in 10 - 20 years; They'll be retired at 50 with £X,000,000 in the bank and a new Ferrari every three months.

They also have parents who are responsible for their well-being. Letting your child run off to hide behind parked cars is foolish, and the parent should either watch their child if they aren't able to comprehend the danger, or should educate their child about the dangers if they are. This is technology being used to solve a social problem; Kids playing around cars.

You've missed the point; I would not tie my shoe when behind a parked car.

The people you're referring to have others who are responsible for their actions; Parents. I would expect the parent to take care of their child, and not let it go playing around other people's cars.

Toddlers that crawl out into the road? Why not. Seeing as their parents can't even stop their toddler playing in traffic, I'm willing to bet that they will end up being just the type of dysfunctional idiot these cameras are designed to legislate around.

You're forgetting the non-zero cost to the economy of people who would ordinarily be stripped from the gene pool by their own idiocy, by standing behind a car, below the sight line of the driver, while the car is reversing.

Anyone who ties their shoes in front of or behind a car with a running engine and a driver at the wheel is in line for a Darwin award. There's only so much stupid you can legislate around before it becomes harmful to the majority.

They weren't public, there just wasn't any extra authentication / authorisation required to access the data. There's a difference between given permission to access files and being technically able to access files. Yes AT&T are on the hook for not securing their files properly, but that's a different issue. I'm pretty sure you could walk into HR at your employer and physically open a filing cabinet and start looking at the personnel records, but I wouldn't like to comment on the permanence of your employment afterwards. You don't, because you know you shouldn't.

If I go to thaylin.net and notice that your server is poorly configured and susceptible to directory traversal, have I hacked your system? If all we're doing is manipulating the URL, "../../../" is just part of the string. All of your files are open for me to access, I just noticed how to do it. Is your permission to access the files implied, just because I can?

He got it for accessing information which, while pathetically "secured", he did not have permission to access.

An analogy I like is that you invite a guy around to your house to play Xbox, and instead he goes and looks through your credit card statements. He hasn't been told he can't, and they're not necessarily locked away, but he knows damn well he shouldn't be doing it. He definitely shouldn't post them to the local press.

Because they can get away with it.If it were my kid, it would be a different story.

Then again, I'm not aware of the whole facts of the case. I'm also sat behind a computer in a different country. I have no children with a Facebook account on which to post negative comments, as I have no children.

From what I can fathom, they sell the ideas of CxO's for whom they have consulted to the CxO's of other companies. The more companies you consult for, the bigger your war chest of good CxO ideas.

A good politician doesn't lie on paper; He can't claim he was quoted out of context if he wrote it down himself.

I hate to be a pedant (I don't really), but monetising everything is the point of business. Facebook is given your information, either by your interaction with them directly (You make use of a Facebook account) or via a third party (tracking on websites, friends sharing details etc); It's not like they're calling your bank and asking for receipts of all the purchases you've made to offer you adverts, or opening your mail and suggesting friends based upon the contents ("Writing to your ageing grandparents? Be friends with Dignitas!").

I agree with the sentiment; I wish they weren't so ubiquitous or underhanded in their collection methodologies, allowing a "GTFO Facebook" service; A generic cookie which either discards or bundles your data with other such cookie users. Just pointing out that you're angry at a business for doing business things.

Exactly what I was getting at. I was including op mode, iterations etc in "encryption" for brevity. Very few here (including me) understand what it actually does, just that it's part of good "encryption". The fact that it is reversible by definition is all I was getting at. If you couldn't recover the plaintext, it would be more like a hashing algorithm.

Why is this even a thing? All reversible encryption (which in itself is a tautology) is searchable.

Plaintext record ID > Encryption+key+salt etc > Cyphertext record ID. Search for the cyphertext record ID. Bring encrypted record back from database. Encrypted record > Encryption > Plaintext record.

How is this a marketable product?!

Name one product Facebook acquisition which it has not been monetised by their data mining core business. Here is a list to help you. Whatsapp and Oculus don't count, as they were recent acquisitions and haven't had time to be insufficiently profitable to be butchered.