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0 pointstranscriptase11mo ago0 comments

Nobody is comparing 4chan to bank mainframes except you. I can’t give a source for something I didn’t claim in the first place.

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MichaelZuo11mo ago

Are you confused?

The claim was “ Get real. Companies with infinitely more money, staff, and robust security practices are hacked every day. ”

Banking core mainframes are the only thing I know of that gets anwhere near that kind of claim in terms of money, staff, and “robust security practices” 24/7/365.

And even then it’s far from infinite.

transcriptaseOP11mo ago

“Infinitely more” compared to a shoestring budget does not mean infinite unless you want to be annoyingly pedantic.

The fact is I provided a fairly comprehensive list of hacks and breaches, many coming from large public companies that spend more in a year on security than 4chan brings in for ad revenue in a decade.

MichaelZuo11mo ago

It’s not even a million times more for a typical mid size bank… probably not even 100,000x… and as far as I know their core mainframes have been 100% secure over the past decade.

Hence my point.

Are you even fully reading my comments?

If you only meant that your claim applies only within an upper limit of say 1000x… saying “infinitely more” is obviously going to mislead some fraction of the readerbase.

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MichaelZuo11mo ago

Are you confused?

The claim was “ Get real. Companies with infinitely more money, staff, and robust security practices are hacked every day. ”

Banking core mainframes are the only thing I know of that gets anwhere near that kind of claim in terms of money, staff, and “robust security practices” 24/7/365.

And even then it’s far from infinite.

transcriptaseOP11mo ago

“Infinitely more” compared to a shoestring budget does not mean infinite unless you want to be annoyingly pedantic.

MichaelZuo11mo ago

It’s not even a million times more for a typical mid size bank… probably not even 100,000x… and as far as I know their core mainframes have been 100% secure over the past decade.

Hence my point.

Are you even fully reading my comments?

If you only meant that your claim applies only within an upper limit of say 1000x… saying “infinitely more” is obviously going to mislead some fraction of the readerbase.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse