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		eleveriven 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discord says 70k users may have had their governme... The whole "it wasn't us, it was our third-party vendor" line is getting way too common. If you're collecting government IDs for age verification, the security bar should be extremely high... no matter who's handling the data

baobabKoodaa 3 months ago [–]

But our subcontractor made a contractual promise to use only sub-subcontractors who use only sub-sub-subcontractors who promise to be secure!

Spivak 3 months ago | [–]

Ahh I see you've done work for the government.

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