Scared.

The address does make it a lot more useful, but the point that I am making is simply that the number itself has never been secure, and this kinda failure was inevitable due to only needing slightly more info than the number itself. A number which itself is already partially identifying.

We shouldn't use social security numbers like we do.

Take your social security number. Change the last number by one. Congrats, you have stolen someones number.

It isn't secure or random in any way. Infact, by doing the above you will have the number of a person born probably in the same hospital as you.

That's the fun part. To be right wing with the amount of information and data we have is to reject reality altogether for the one you want, not the one you have. It's not really the fault of the fact checker that right wing has become "insane person". That's good ol humanity and right wing becoming an outdated idea no longer worth having.

Every person who organized or provides labor or money to this effort should be prosecuted. Drove the bus? Prosecuted. Provided translation? Prosecuted. Did payroll for the organization that plans it? Prosecuted. Whole things a criminal effort.

I see you subscribe to the moral theory of "I didn't click okay, I hit escape".

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

They didn't break any laws, they broke trust. Random people can leak all they want, they don't have institutional standing and respect. If what you said was true then it'd be pretty weird that every other institutional news, even gaming focused ones, have honored that request. Because doing otherwise is a dick move that kills your reputation, and the gaming industry is legendary for blacklisting for far less disrespectful moves. Downright petty with it.

He used a tiktok filter lol that's awesome.

Fun fact. While I worked as a prison officer, an inmate was escorted to a back room of the medical area and beaten handcuffed while 9 people listened. I reported it and nothing happened. None of the 9 people besides myself corroborated the attack. Then my warden denied my transfer request and attempted to kill me by putting me back under the command of the person I had reported for abuse.

Guess it's not really a fun fact.

The Verge isn't pulling the article and they are currently backing their journo. The whole site is blacklisted at this point.

Except this is a game industry reputation ruined. It isn't just valve, why would any dev ever give the verge access again knowing that they will not only disrespect your requests but bitch and moan if you hold them to it.

It's a full rep killer. They will never have early access again for any company.