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Sure, but reading the article, I think he might be knowledgeable enough. His mistake seems to have been blindly trusting the keys to the kingdom to an enthusiastic junior dev who’ll be very sorry if they nuke your system, but won’t think to do a damn thing to make sure it doesn’t happen in the first place…

I like the irony of that.

Our code is hallucinated but our legal team is very, very real

Explain just what the hell you think “on-site and by hand” means, please.

I’m always a little shocked when people ask me if my product is on Amazon. I never even considered it because I’ve known what they are for so long; it’s been a bit of a wakeup call that most people still have no idea how fucking awful Amazon is. It sucks struggling with market visibility, selling just from my own website, but it beats the hell out of being bullied like this until I’m big enough to have my product stolen and copied by Amazon Basics.

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For most of my lifetime, date breaches had to be carried out on-site and by hand.

Explain how that means only “emails and USB jump drives”. That might be hard, because it doesn’t.

As well, you might be thinking of the Black Monday stock market crash, because I don’t remember any high-profile hack to exfiltrate data from the Dow Jones. Amongst the only early remote data breaches I am aware of is the German guys who got into the DoD’s network and sold the data to the KGB, in the mid-80s, because it was only the military and some universities who had the internet back then.

Remote data breaches have only really been a thing since the 2000s, because like I said, computers were less common and the internet was almost non-existent before that point. The spread of both computers and the internet made it a lot easier. If you’re having trouble with the maths, that means I don’t in fact have to be “well over 80 years old”.

This is not intended as an excuse for corporate laziness by any means, but: For most of my lifetime, data breaches had to be carried out by on-site and by hand. The advent of computers, and then the internet, made this crap a lot easier. So, y’know, it’s a pretty short timeline relative to a human lifespan to be having data breaches in the first place.

So elegant! This is too valuable for GitHub, sell this directly to the Saudi government.

Here ya go: https://www.jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617/

Edit: Ah, sold privately, as in directly between individuals? I’m not sure about that, but they totally could. They can track the location of the car; if it starts getting parked at a different house regularly, for example, it’d be easy to tell it’d been sold.

I wanted a Tesla, until about seven or eight years ago when they switched off features after some dude bought his Tesla used, because only the original owner had paid for the features.

I knew this is what it would turn into. Fuck Tesla, and fuck Musk.