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The entire credit system is a security nightmare. They all appear to use very basic "security" that has not been upgraded along with the rest of the world. Conflating identity and authorization, using deterministic values instead of random ones when necessary, and even for Equifax plain old sending people to the wrong domain.


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> Now gimmie my downvotes, you spineless bastards (and the sociopaths you bend over for)

Just please leave this off. The guidelines ask us to, and if you're worried about down votes, being aggressive and rude isn't going to help matters.


That's not how it normally works. Sysadmins and Devs don't usually have the ability to decide the strategic direction of a company




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