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Yes, in the mid 1990s, large banks in the USA were being electronically compromised so often that they wouldn’t investigate or pursue a loss if it was under $50k.

Battersea Dogs Homes senior dog carers are employed based on their PR experience and not at all on their experience at looking after dogs

It was me, I did it, I put that cheeky note on the noticeboard. I told the boss I accepted responsibility because I was in charge on that shift, but in fact it was me all along. Sorry Derek. (Not sorry.)

The amount of school districts and city govts. that use Google docs for everything is terrifying. I'm talking plain text student info and billing information.

People like me help to define, build, test, and support important services you use. Explains a lot.

My company is infested with cats. I think the CEO doesn't know about it.

I worked for a very large insurance company until recently . IT is run like the Wild West. Contractors seem to do whatever they want.  after a merger several years ago, all the people who built the systems were driven out, leaving a bunch of low paid outsourced contractors to support everything. The entire IT infrastructure is a bad day from collapsing.

I worked for an MSP doing IT for an assortment of companies. Most of the companies were in the medical or legal fields. Every single computer they sold to their clients, used the exact same bitlocker key when booting the computer. If you've worked for one of the companies we supported, you knew the bitlocker key for all of them. Iat been the exact same bitlocker key for at least 10 years. This MSP also regularly puts out social media posts and emails saying how security focused they are etc, etc.

If you're doing a holiday in the USA and renting a car via enterprise, Alamo or national book with Rentalcars.com, unless you're flying with doing a Virgin package holiday, in Which case do it with them. They have the best rates in the market due to special agreements. If you want the best customer service experience for rental cars book with Virgin as they will put a lot of pressure on Alamo/national/enterprise who will bend over backwards for you.

The potato and gravy at KFC uses whatever crud fell to the bottom of the friers each day. Usually that was good chicken bits, but sometimes it could be whatever the staff were playing catch with for fun.

Oh and be nice to the people making your food. Trust me on that one.

Instagram allows employees to check on the accounts of the users and share that to other people. I didn't work there, but an employee told my girlfriend who I talked to before we were exclusive. I think that's total bullshit

I used to work in a very large mortgage company in their website. The amount of tracking they do, the amount of information they have, just for mortgages, is astounding and frightening. We knew almost every detail about someone before they committed to a mortgage.

I worked for a domain registrar and hosting company. The margins on their products are massive!

We would charge €75 for a domain recovery, while it would just cost €2 something to actually do. And the process was fully automated.

Alesis, creators of ADAT Type 2 digital audio tapes hired none other that James Doohan to promote it playing the “Famous Engineer” because they didn’t get the rights to anything Star Trek.

It was only played during trade shows, but someone I know got a copy.

https://youtu.be/oHB_Dyad4cg