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By: Khürt L. Williams

Everyone who sits next to me is a possible threat. If you don’t believe that then I suggest loudly blurting out your social security number in public space.

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By: Khürt L. Williams

Both companies made mistakes.

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By: Khürt L. Williams

Both companies made mistakes. But … the “hacker” would not have been able to reset the authors ID without first exploiting Amazon. “The data the hacker got from Amazon can be found easily.” You forgot...

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By: Khürt L. Williams

” companies like Amazon or Apple who are swimming in cash and profits, are too cheap to buy advanced, high quality security, and keep it up to date.” Please provide the FACTS that show that to be the...

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By: Khürt L. Williams

How would using a non-email address as an ID have prevented this? I’d like to hear your solution.

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By: Henry Hertz Hobbit

They aren’t if you select stock questions that anybody can find the answers to and that is what you use. There is nothing to prevent you from picking novel answers that only you know that cannot be...

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By: Henry Hertz Hobbit

The Apple locator app should never have had the capability to delete data. Deleting data may sound good at first glance but I don’t think I would have ever picked it. Instead a more secure design is a...

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By: Junior Cole

Regardless of the validity of your statement, offensive name calling should not come from the mouth of anyone who wishes to be taken seriously.

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By: Junior Cole

fyi, top scientist didn’t state the “hater” comment. that was done by nicojr2005 a few posts up.

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By: Junior Cole

For all comments relating to one company being better/worse/secure/less secure than the other, all the information that was used to hack Amazon and Apple were easily accessed through loopholes in...

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Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack

Amazon changed its customer privacy policies on Monday, closing security gaps that were exploited in the identity hacking of Wired reporter Mat Honan on Friday. The post Amazon Quietly Closes Security...

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