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by PaulHoule 3614 days ago
(1) Talk to your Boss, (2) Start looking for a new job.

In most companies you can't change your environment via communications, politics, all that. You can't even change the way things were in the company by leaving, but you can change your environment by getting a new environment.

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I tried talking to him but from their point of view the thing is that nothing actually happened - it was internal review time. I tried explaining to them that if one goes to the local car dealership, takes out a car for a test-drive and instead of just the seats and the mirrors being in the wrong place gasoline starts gushing out of the air conditioning and incinerate the driver, under no circumstances that would be considered an otherwise uneventful misfire. Yet they don't see the point.
Let's put it this way.

The new head of the CFTC says that cyber attacks are the most severe threat to the global financial system and he is right.

The main reason for that is that the kind of attitudes you are talking about are widespread.