2017-10-03

Regurgitating the Equifax Breach

I've been going over a few of the articles on various venues regarding the Equifax data breach which caused the release of 143 million American consumers personal data with little to no consequences for the company.

The Equifax people are whining about security measures not working and people problem failures but in the end the breach remains and we were all betrayed and still those consequences remain minute or non existent.

Execute Equifax  
My personal feelings regarding the matter include throwing everyone above middle management against a wall and giving them that firing squad they so richly deserve. They also include the notion that perhaps servers in a DMZ containing such critical data might have been hardened much more BEFORE the fact instead of afterwards.

Had the personal data been transferred from a deeply secure repository to an edge server requiring packet transfers over verified connections known to the server beforehand, had spoofing not been possible over the IP networks, and certainly had somebody picked up a gd phone and spoken to someone once in a while perhaps these things may have either been mitigated or prevented.


As it stands nothing is really secure. Our social security numbers are used as primary identification numbers in too many avenues unrelated to social security, and we need the stupid global orientation imparted by the UN to go away and allow us to pursue our own designs in who gets what on our segment of the internet.

Nobody gets my stuff unless they have an account with a static IP and are known to me up front. I trust little and verify much. I would never give up data in the manner as Equifax and the scoundrels have gotten away with it ... as usual.

There is no punishment too severe for these technotards. Everything in America is retrospect because we never try to get it right up front.