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TZubiritoday at 1:56 AM2 repliesview on HN

It reminds me of the famous "mistakes were made" Nixon quote.

"We are investigating unauthorized access" sounds much better than "we've been hacked"


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tomkarhotoday at 4:07 AM

This reminds me of George Carlin standup routine about PTSD. If you want to make any bad news sound less bad, just wrap the concept around complicated jargon to sterilize it.

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vldszntoday at 2:10 AM

Exactly =)