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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn response to 53-million customer data breach, Home Depot buys Macs and IPhones...
for "senior executives".
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/home-depot-blames-windows-record-hack-rushes-buy-141037869.html
If a Home Depot truck ran into a bus, I assume that the senior executives would get new BMWs.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)An eyeroll is usually not informative.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)DOES NOTHING!!!! to address the security breach that compromised their network.
Clear enough?
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Apple products are more secure, ergo less risk of data loss and intrusion.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)You get two:
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)As an exec I can assure you they're no big deal at all. Don't get your attitude.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)and an insult to the customers who were compromised.
Home Depot hopes that people will buy into the idea that if the CEO has a Mac on his desk, then their data is now safe. Never mind that servers are still windows, the PC's in the stores are Windows XP and that they share your data (email, credit card info), etc with 3rd party "affiliates" (pretty much anyone who does business with them). No worries, the executives now have iPhones!
I didn't expect to actually find somebody who would.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)But whatever.
Initech
(100,079 posts)The only computers that are safe from hacking and data intrusion are the ones that aren't hooked into a network. Any computer, phone, tablet, running any operating system whether it's Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Firefox OS, Blackberry OS, any Linux variant, I could go on and on, is just as susceptible to a data breach as the next is.
Initech
(100,079 posts)They just wasted their money.