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by tedunangst 5362 days ago
#1: How is that at all relevant? Did Sony at some point claim they were unable to retrieve users' passwords without disproportionate effort?
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Tangurena 5362 days ago
Because Sony decided to add a mandatory arbitration clause to get around the lawsuits resulting from the disclosure of 100,000,000+ names, addresses and credit cards. http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/09/15/sony-adds-mandatory-a...
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tedunangst 5362 days ago
Can you rephrase that to include the words "disproportionate effort" so it gives the illusion of being relevant?
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ltamake 5362 days ago
The OP mentioned that Facebook is a big corporation so they clearly must have secure data structures and invincibility from all attacks ever. I'm just pointing out that to support my point -- Facebook has the ability to fetch the data but really doesn't want to. Secure data structures have nothing to do with it, they don't prevent the fetching of data. And if Facebook is smart, they don't just throw things around randomly in the database without rhyme or reason.
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eurleif 5362 days ago
What? No one said anything about invincibility from attack, or security in general. And the point was that they have a complex infrastructure, not that they throw things around randomly without rhyme or reason.
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