alt Hacker NewsBut they allowed that exact situation for a while now and no one cared. Stupid security but politically safe since Trump would never investigate.
Big corps never pivot throughout the whole corp for a single issue, only when risk in a certain context keeps compounding. The Dem wins compounded risk of legal action; it's not just that the laws are on the books. They were on the books a month ago.
"Yeah that's what I said it's to hedge legal risk."
It's the way you said it; ignoring potentially relevant political context. A lot the rhetoric demonizing politics is intentional to embed a negative reaction causing us to discount it's value
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This is global, starting with Hong Kong months ago. I doubt fear of US regulators were was the motive.
ELINA, please! As a non-American, I don’t understand why anyone would care about Trump in this context. Aren’t the people who look into these things different departments? And don’t they only look into anything after a breach?
> they allowed that exact situation for a while now and no one cared
Source for them having allowed it versus not tightly enforced IT rules?