As I see it, the main lesson of the persistence of an identity theft market that has continued to result in major data breaches for over a decade, including of the DoD, is that no organization's security should be trusted unconditionally. I'm sure Amazon handles some matters very well. Other matters they don't (keeping counterfeit products out of their affiliates' stores, organizing their own website, etc).quantAndHold wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 10:55 am I know a lot about the internals of how Amazon does security, and I’m sure it’s fine…but I’m going to disable it on my own system. At least until I know more about how they’re doing this.
Maybe their security practices are great, but I'm sticking with the principle that sharing data with more individuals or organizations does not increase security, regardless of how good the security of the additional parties is.
Think about the meaning of the metaphor a little more then. We talk about the last straw breaking the camel's back instead of the last boulder because even very small increments eventually reach a threshold.dukeblue219 wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 7:29 am Honestly though, I can't figure out for whom *this* would be the last straw.