BMaker11 said: Banks have some high end security. Infrared lighting, cameras, thick security walls, etc. They still get robbed. Is it the bank's fault that someone knew what to do to get the money of the many customers the bank holds? That's what you're basically saying right now. I'd say cameras (to see who enters the bank), thick walled vaults (so they can't easily be broken into), and infrared lights (so if the robbery happens at night, it'll trigger an alarm) is preparing for the 'worst case scenario' (the worst case scenario for any bank is being robbed)......but robberies STILL happen. It's not a BS analogy. It's the same situation. You're placing blame on the victim for what someone else does. And it's not ok. Just like when women get raped and someone says she "deserved" it because she was dressing a certain way. No....she was raped because she was raped. And Sony got hacked because Sony got hacked, not because they told someone to do it. |
The analogy is imperfect. You need to take it a step further. That is, the bank is robbed and then the bank waits a week before informing anyone of a potential problem. Sony can't be blamed for the hack. They can be blamed for lack of informing those affected, and failing to properly encrypt some data*. You can't stop in the middle of what happened. Sony being hacked is the smallest portion of the problem here. Their method of handling it was the biggest. Storing all the info the way they did is somewhere in the middle dependant on specifics we will likely never know.
*I admit I am mostly up about the passwords not being encrypted. That is the sloppiest thing you can do. I am stunned a company the size of Sony would let it happen. While I continue to hear stories of companies storing passwords in plain text I continue to rail on them for being stupid too. Unbelievable everytime at every level.