If we use exactly the same standard that they use to judge what should be public information, then the names, email addresses, and passwords of everyone who calls himself/herself Anonymous should be public as well.
Ah you opened the door to the obligatory link
Why is this modded funny?
Because you are asking addicts to give up their crack and expecting them to say "oh ok sorry about that".
It seem not jut your information, but also you friends.
I noticed this for some apps:
Access my friends' information Birthdays, Religious and political views, Family members and relationship statuses, Significant others and relationship details, Home towns, Current locations, Likes, music, TV, movies, books, quotes, Activities, Interests, Education history, Work history, Online presence, Websites, Groups, Events, Notes, Photos, Videos, Photos and videos of them, 'About me' details and Facebook statuses
Why on earth would Facebook want to give this information to third parties, and worse to ones you have not given permission to, but your friend has.
Because you cannot sell what nobody want's to buy, information is what they can sell, the real question is why do people want to buy this information.
You're in IT. Like it or not, you're SUPPORT staff - your job solely consists of helping me do mine. If I damned well want to use my computer to do X it's your job to make this possible. That's what you are paid for. I'm sure you could keep a nice little network if it weren't for us users doing annoying things like using our computers to do work. If I want to run MATLAB from home, you make it damned possible for me to do that. If I want my email in a separate Thunderbird folder on my laptop, you do that. Otherwise there's no point in having you.
I'm sure this will come as a shock to a lot of you, but it isn't the goal of every enterprise to have a neat little network. And the time I spend having to get my password reset because the bit monkey insists that I change it every 6 weeks and that it contain at least 10 letters, 2 numbers and 2 non-alphanumeric characters? That's time wasted from me making money that keeps us all in business.
To put it bluntly: I don't give a damn what you're happy with - it's what I'M happy with that counts. Do your job well and you're a force multiplier, but remember that your function is to multiply MY output.
I think this is a major part of the problem, many people in IT seem to forget that they are there to help, much of the enforcement actually makes IT a department nobody want's to deal with. This has the impact that people try hard to work around the IT people all the time which creates an unhelpful environment. This then causes a knee jerk reaction to increase the enforcement which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy where IT support is considered at best unhelpful at worst useless.
As the distance between enforcing control and helping people is getting larger, it is no surprise that many IT departments get outsourced and yes in the majority of cases this made the situation worse because it is much harder dealing with essentially another company that has different goals to yours.
I do not know what the solution might be, but perhaps allowing the user more control is at least a step in the correct direction.
Does anybody know if this was a global database or one region only?
cheers.
It was regional, as another posted pointed out Vodafone uses different systems all over the world.
It is bad news certainly but unless the person who built the web interface was an idiot it should have no way to extract all customer data in one go. Either way, Vodafone promised more information and we can be certain that will happen as VF is not really a single company anymore than the EU is a single country. It should be interesting as the others will be very peeved this close to the annual SOx audit and the ball is dropped like this.
2. DON'T make the administrative interface a GUI.
Amen, the number of times I have dumped on products because of the lack of a CLI is almost rude and funnily enough it saves a lot in licensing costs so "almost" everyone is happy. Pretty pictures and buttons will get you past the management and sales but if you come near my systems with your "button pushing monkey" toys expect your time in the building to be very short indeed.
So I can't use a Mastercard to pay for Usenet service, then?
The first rule of Usenet is, you do not talk about Usenet.
It is very hard to explain people that changing passwords every month will LOWER the security.
If I had a penny for every time I had to say that
So we force users to change passwords using complicated passwords, users being human (mostly) make typos and in coordination with mandatory locking after multiple password failures and there we have it a whole new department servicing user password problems and stability and functionality are thrown out of the window. Then came SOx but after that things just became silly, I wonder how many campaign contributions auditing and high tech security companies made.
IF you play this game the CIA will record your IP and sexy left leaning Swedish intellectual feminists will pick you up in the bar for drinks then invite you to their house, let you have sex with them, cook you breakfast, and then accuse you rape a month later.
They'll put out international 'red notices' for your arrest; Pursue you across international boundaries, and spread insidious false rumours of your poor performance in bed.
Instead of waiting a month walk into the police station yourself the following morning and "ask for advice" while explaining that you wanted to keep the condom on but she intentionally ripped it by deviously moving during intercourse, it would be interesting watching Sweden attempt to extradite her from her new home near Langley, I wonder if it would be pursued just as vigorously after all there is this nasty setting a precedent thing.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
