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Comment Re: Reminds me (Score 1) 86

That's only one of many benefits. I've thought about this a lot because I've bought related stuff under a bunch of these different names. I've wondered if they are auto-generated randomly, or perhaps are something more bizarre such as being transposed in sequence order from Chinese characters.

Comment Seems reasonable (Score 4, Informative) 25

Companies should, in general, avoid keeping any user data one second longer than they legitimately need it. Data should be viewed as a liability more than an asset, and every company that achieves significant scale with user data soon realizes this, though some take longer than others to learn the lesson.

The reason it's a liability is because it exposes the company to an endless stream of warrants and subpoenas, and contrary to popular belief, the government does not pay for that data. In some cases the government might pay a portion of the expenses the company incurs in responding, but it's always still a net loss, and most of the time the government just shows up with a court order and says "Hand it over or be held in contempt of court". What makes it even worse is if companies actually want to be good stewards of the data and not hand over more than they should, they'll often get overly-broad requests and then have to go to court to fight to narrow or quash the requests.

This all gets very expensive. It's just a cost of doing business... but it's a cost that can be avoided if you don't have and can't get the data.

Encrypt everything, and arrange to destroy the keys when you no longer need the data is the best way to do it, too. Scrubbing large databases quickly and effectively is hard. Deleting a set of AES keys is a lot easier. This also means that you can focus your internal access controls on controlling which systems and employees can get the keys.

I'd encourage Ring to find ways to close the window of access even more.

Comment Re:Dude is gonna induce a depression (Score 2) 72

JFC, what more do you think the Democrats could do? There was nothing but "Orange Man will destroy this country" from them before the election if anyone would have fucking listened.
Forty-plus years of Fox News gaslighting,

Fox News is a problem because Bill Clinton signed the CDA, which permitted media consolidation. Same with Sinclair. What Democrats could have done was not cause the problem in the first fucking place.

How much absolutely horrible shit has to be done by establishment Democrats before we accept the simple fact that they are doing it on purpose because they don't want to win as that would kill the golden goose?

Comment Re:It reminds me of John Henry (Score 1) 47

Politico has a cover story about how SS is headed for a 20+% haircut for the blue-haired and that no Republican will do a damn thing about it because their dumbass belief that taxing the wealthy and capital in general kills jobs.

If your characterization of their story is accurate, then they are willful contributors to the problem, because Republicans don't actually believe any of that shit. They just keep saying it because their voters keep buying it. Every time the Republicans get the reins they ride the horse straight off a cliff, and those dumbfucks never learn and vote for them anyway because they did as told and ignored the evidence of their own senses.

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