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DoorDash hack leaks data of 4.9 million customers, restaurants
Food delivery. Used to be a pizza-only thing. Some "entrepeneurs" figured out a way to further exploit the Consumerism which is one of the major plagues this society suffers from. Don't have a car? Are you a "starving student?" Use plastic to order, then plastic for the separate delivery charge. It's not just a simple matter of throwing the delivery kid a few bucks when he shows up with the pizza. It's big business and lots of employees. And the business model involves computing the distance from the delivery joint's own location, to the fast food joint where the junk food is picked up, plus mileage to the delivery point from there. It's a free country, and people are quite free to be REALLY stupid with their money, or money they don't even have. I once asked my local favorite pizza joint if they deliver, and what I've just spelled-out is what they told me.
"So their eyes are growing hazy, because they want to turn it on; So their minds are soft and lazy.... Well----- who d'ya want to blame?" (10,000 Maniacs, "Candy Everybody Wants.")
LYRICS: If lust and hate is the candy if blood and love tastes so sweet then we give 'em what they want Hey, hey, give 'em what they want So their eyes are growing hazy 'cause they want to turn it on so their minds are soft and lazy Well, hey, give 'em what they want If lust and hate is the candy if blood and love tastes so sweet then we give 'em what they want So their eyes are growing hazy 'cause they want to turn it on so their minds are soft and lazy Well who do you want to blame? Hey, hey,…
(Critical Thinking? Naw, we don't bother teaching THAT anymore.)
"The last four digits of payment cards for some consumers ... may have been leaked. " Aren't we always being told: you're only being asked for the last four digits to protect your security? Right.
"nearly 100,000 delivery executives" Sounds a little top heavy. (Pay) grade inflation? Maybe this is why the company can't afford decent security.
"Delivery executives" = the latest frufru feel-good inflated term for "employees" who are now called "associates" "crew members" "meal designers" "sandwich artists" and so forth. smh...
That latter article also says that the company is valued at $7.1B. Even if "startups" don't pay enough attention to security, you'd think their backers would show more interest in protecting the big bucks they've poured into them.
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"So their eyes are growing hazy, because they want to turn it on;
So their minds are soft and lazy.... Well----- who d'ya want to blame?"
(10,000 Maniacs, "Candy Everybody Wants.")
LYRICS:
If lust and hate is the candy
if blood and love tastes so sweet
then we give 'em what they want
Hey, hey, give 'em what they want
So their eyes are growing hazy 'cause they want to turn it on
so their minds are soft and lazy
Well, hey, give 'em what they want
If lust and hate is the candy
if blood and love tastes so sweet
then we give 'em what they want
So their eyes are growing hazy 'cause they want to turn it on
so their minds are soft and lazy
Well who do you want to blame?
Hey, hey,…
(Critical Thinking? Naw, we don't bother teaching THAT anymore.)
Aren't we always being told: you're only being asked for the last four digits to protect your security? Right.
"nearly 100,000 delivery executives"
Sounds a little top heavy. (Pay) grade inflation? Maybe this is why the company can't afford decent security.
DoorDash will pay $5 million to settle class-action lawsuit over independent contractors (2017)
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/10/doordash-will-pay-5-million-to-settle-class-action-lawsuit-over-independent-contractors/
DoorDash Has Been Confusing Its Workers About Payments for Nearly Two Years (2019, "its delivery workers, independent contractors called dashers")
https://gizmodo.com/doordash-has-been-confusing-its-workers-about-payments-1833327287
That latter article also says that the company is valued at $7.1B. Even if "startups" don't pay enough attention to security, you'd think their backers would show more interest in protecting the big bucks they've poured into them.
Yes, until it isn't.