Aren't you preaching to the choir a bit? The tweet is stupid, but what else do you expect from a stream of consciousness utterance? Your point, while entirely valid, misses the point. It is up to us, meaning we need to do more to create secure systems. In this case, Citi didn't even come close to doing that. To blame LulzSec or the individual who "broke" their system, or has been arrested and will probably be scapegoated is misplacing responsibility. There is plenty of blame to go around here, and if I had to divide the responsibility for the attack proportionally I would do 90% at Citi and 10% at Lulzsec. Now, if Citi were operating a secure system, I would adjust accordingly, but let's not kid ourselves about what Citi did or didn't do in this specific instance.
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