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scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/08/elementary-os-hires-cassidy-james

That's pretty awesome.

scottalanmiller

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Wireguard looks very interesting.

Definitely showing potential.

black3dynamite

Korora Spins from the community.
https://jmiahman.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/korora/
https://kororaproject.org/support/engage/question/i-want-to-help-please-let-me-1
https://kororaproject.org/about/news/the-community-is-working-on-korora-28

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Korora Spins from the community.
https://jmiahman.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/korora/
https://kororaproject.org/support/engage/question/i-want-to-help-please-let-me-1
https://kororaproject.org/about/news/the-community-is-working-on-korora-28

That's pretty awesome. And XFCE is the version that I use.

Kelly

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

black3dynamite

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Wow!
...insisting that no one was actually injured and that it owed no duty to safeguard the personal information of millions of consumers and financial institutions.

Dashrender

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Wow!
...insisting that no one was actually injured and that it owed no duty to safeguard the personal information of millions of consumers and financial institutions.

If they don't owe a duty to customers - then why does anyone?

DustinB3403

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

Dashrender

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

in fact - I think we have a duty to get them shut down.

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

in fact - I think we have a duty to get them shut down.

GDPR requests!

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

in fact - I think we have a duty to get them shut down.

GDPR requests!

Can American's ask for it?

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

in fact - I think we have a duty to get them shut down.

GDPR requests!

Can American's ask for it?

Anyone can request it. It would be dangerous for them to ignore it because of two reasons...

It is unclear who exclusively it covers.
They can't be sure you aren't connected to a place with coverage.

travisdh1

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Wow!
...insisting that no one was actually injured and that it owed no duty to safeguard the personal information of millions of consumers and financial institutions.

If they don't owe a duty to customers - then why does anyone?

In general, we're the product, not the customer. It's actually logical. They didn't loose customer data.

Now as to weather the entire line of business is an ethical thing to be doing, @Dashrender and @DustinB3403 I tend to agree that they need shut down.

Kelly

And GDPR (or something like it) is coming to the US: https://iapp.org/news/a/california-passes-landmark-privacy-legislation/. It was only a matter of time imo. And this will be coming to your states soon if it doesn't happen federally before. Better get started planning so you can look amazing when it does start affecting you.