Someday people will take security seriously. Sadly, today is not that day. Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 October 2026: Sulfur Blond Edition
Meanwhile the password for the Danish national registry, holding the personal data of more people than actually live in Denmark, was reportedly 123456. (Tom's Hardware)
Oops.
That was reported by the hackers, after they had been in Denmark's system for 12 days.
I generally feel bad for the victims of hackers, but you can't protect people from their own stupidity.
Other instances of stupidity...
Indonesia realized that it had no backups when a ransomware attack in 2024 affected over 230 public agencies, while South Korea lost 858 terabytes of data after a catastrophic fire at a government data center last year. (reference)
How do you have no backups? How do you have no off-site backups?
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