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Comment A Wonderful Thing! (Score 1) 71

This is fantastic news, and offers the beginning of a glimmer of hope across the world. Transferring these benefits to sub-Saharan Africa (for example) will require incredible changes to drug marketing/profit-making, but also cultural changes. Ultimately this would have massive positive economic benefits in this region, but the political will and strength required to make this available is immense.

Comment A counter to this...? (Score 1) 75

So could a counter to this be to create accounts on as many systems as possible using your corporate account just to create noise?

Maybe an early task for the IT department could be to create such accounts on the executive's behalf, and release them as required? Obviously this will be borderline (or plain beyond) the standard T&Cs for these sites, but at least they'd be able to claim another valued user (advertising viewer).

Clearly you'd need to use a list of sites that won't get the corporation into trouble, but which encompasses all the sorts of sites its employees are likely to log in to with such credentials. Playboy might or might not be on such a white list, but should an exec need such...relief... (s)he could ask to have that site added to the list.

Comment Re:Probably worse for The Register than their read (Score 1) 70

As (I assume) an average Reg reader I don't really give much of a toss if my login's compromised. The email account was probably disposable and I can always make a new login if I want to comment. I've looked through the list and can't see myself (or anything that looks like the sort of online ID I'd use) there, and given that I've forgotten my details I'll probably need to create a new account anyway... Yup, they look a bit daft from this. The self-reporting to the ICO is certainly a Good Thing.

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