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Phew, they only needlessly and carelessly divulged 12,000 people's HIV status.


I never said it was a good thing.

Even though the badness of the situation, I'm saying it would have been terribly worse with mass leaks of the DB this came from. It's not like we in the tech community have seen leaks like that...

Regardless, I see this as a bad screw-up with with no ill intent behind it. It was literally a "too large window" on an envelope...


Everything can pretty much always be worse, so just saying so isn't really insightful.


Yes, but it's almost surreal how negligent this was.




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