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LA Times inadvertently provides burglars with subscribers' addresses.

DaikunDaikun
edited January 2013 in News
Good going, LA Times!

No wonder the Internet is replacing newspapers.
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  • Jack DraigoJack Draigo
    Okay, so how can the LA Times secure their subscribers' information better in the future?
  • DromaroDromaro
    edited February 2013
    "Because user information databases have never been compromised ever.", said no one.
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  • YoshoKatanaYoshoKatana
    edited February 2013
    Wait, did they have a physical list of subscribers that the guy posing as a repairman stole from the office? What is this, 1992?
    Police say Duane Van Tuinen, an office repairman contracted by the newspaper, repeatedly stole lists of the newspaper's subscribers and passed them on to three other men, who burglarized more than 25 homes in Southern California while residents were away.
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  • jtvhjtvh
    Wait, did they have a physical list of subscribers that the guy posing as a repairman stole from the office? What is this, 1992?
    Seriously, even in 1992 that data would've been in dBase or Filemaker or somesuch and only rarely printed.
  • YoshoKatanaYoshoKatana
    True, dat.
  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Note to self: Never report being on vacation to L.A. Times. Have neighbor grab the paper instead.
  • ReolReol
    Wait, people subscribe to newspapers? That's still a thing?
  • VigaViga
    This sounds like the plot of a burglar comedy movie.
  • Dragonmaster LouDragonmaster Lou
    edited February 2013
    Wait, people subscribe to newspapers? That's still a thing?
    Older people (and sometimes even some younger people for whatever reason) still like reading physical paper. Plus, if you want to read the online edition only, for some insane reason it's usually cheaper to subscribe to the print version and get online access for no additional charge than it is to only pay for the online version. Finally, some people like collecting all the coupons that come in the Sunday paper.
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  • Victor FrostVictor Frost
    Yeah, my mom is a coupon master.
  • CremlianCremlian
    We used to do that for coupons it worked for a while until we got lazy...
  • AprecheApreche
    Coupons are awesome for people who have more free time than money. I am not that people. Old people and unemployed people are that people. Coupons are socialism in a way. If you don't have a job, you can get money if you spend your time looking at ads and cutting paper.
  • GregGreg
    Here at the TvH household, we still subscribe to the Globe. Mom likes reading it over breakfast, and dad needs it to put miniatures on when he applies the primer -- plus any number of miscellaneous art projects I have to do for school where it's handy.
  • RymRym
    dad needs it to put miniatures on when he applies the primer
    Having birds was the reason we continued to subscribe to at least one newspaper when I was living with my parents.

  • Dragonmaster LouDragonmaster Lou
    Coupons are awesome for people who have more free time than money. I am not that people. Old people and unemployed people are that people. Coupons are socialism in a way. If you don't have a job, you can get money if you spend your time looking at ads and cutting paper.
    Not so much socialism as an advertising-based service, kind of like how you get Gmail and other web content for free in exchange for seeing ads (ignoring ad blockers and such). I used to get the Sunday paper in part for coupons and in part for actually reading the news, but I got lazy with both. I still have a bunch of papers stacked in my garage simply for starting up the grill with a chimney starter or my fireplace, but even when those go I'll simply use the various supermarket fliers and other junk mail I get instead.
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