Starting to wonder if the ageing decision makers are gonna cause more problems like this. But even the young members of the US military have made similar slip-ups. I don’t know what the root cause of the problem is.
It’s all ages and ranks. There’s no accountability anymore unless you’re enlisted E-7 or below, you get fucked. If you’re an officer, you get promoted for doing stuff like this.
this is not just about people in us military, some of these mails may be coming from outside and you can’t really control what you are being mailed in.
For anyone claiming that this isn’t enough, remember that Norway’s population is 5.4 million. If the fine were raised any higher, Facebook can simply not do business there. The goal is to get Facebook to comply with the law, not to remove them.
"This decision “does not ban Facebook or Instagram in Norway,” Tobias Judin, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority’s international department head, stated in a release. “The purpose is rather to ensure that people in Norway can use these services in a secure way and that their rights are safeguarded.” - > AP News
At face value many people would say that Facebook pulling out is a good thing, but it’s not that simple. Lots of small businesses rely on social media. People would be losing a forum for political discourse, no matter how fake news infested it may be. People who rely on it to initiate social interaction will have to find a different channel now. They are so conditioned to the convenience of staying connected with friends and family through social media that it has eroded forms of communication. This isn’t a judgment on social media users, this is just stating how social interactions have changed and how detrimental removing these tools can be.
Facebook has around 3 billion users. It’s economic impact is estimated at 227 billion USD. It’s part of the fabric of society, especially for people with poor media literacy. Good luck pulling the plug on that.
so it was a lot of individual typos, not a single big one, but they are appearantly pretty common.
up until now the domain management was outsourced to some commercial company from netherland, which tried to alert US DOD to the problem.
but in near future it is expected the control of the domain to be transferred under the control of local military junta, which can lead to these mails being stored and sold to higher bidder, or some similar fun stuff.
no kidding, that's the kind of thing that after the first few times it happens, someone from product should flag this and build in a system with redundant checks if you want to send mail to .ml, like:
The user has to have permission to send to .ml in the first place
Any individual .ml address they want to send to has to be whitelisted in a separate UI from email compose (possibly excluding replies)
Any time they send to .ml (or any external domain), the recipient box turns a different color, and there's a notice, CURRENTLY SENDING TO AN EXTERNAL DOMAIN
with a list of all external domains included eg you could also be sending to a contractor
and a count of the domains
Any .ml sent mail is auto delayed by a couple minutes and requires you to confirm you wanted to send it (again possibly excluding replies)
I would hope there's also some flags emails can have for whatever sensitive info levels, these should also come with automatic client-side and server-side validation that you're not sending them to someone who you shouldn't.
More specifically, how does the .ml provider know the content of these messages? Do they just spoof MX for all unregistered domains, or did they specifically register the domain names mimicking the US military hostnames? Both scenarios seem sketchy.
It’s described in the article. The Dutchman who runs the registrar for Mali first started to started to store the emails sent to these invalid addresses before being overwhelmed (and probably realising the literal minefield having US government secrets is) and stopping doing that. So yes his firm was initially intercepting messages sent to the aether by spoofing invalid addresses.
If they leave it for 10 years it will be 0.4% of their yearly gross profit. They will surely care :^) tbh these fines need to be exponential instead of linear.
Just fine them 1 dollar with a daily interest rate of 1%.
They wouldn’t have a case, since this other app can prove they’ve been available under that name for 4 years. However, I bet the low-ball offers to buy the app and domain have already started. I wonder what number they’ll eventually settle on…
True. They have a fair bit of leverage, though. Even just renaming the competing product would probably cost Meta a small fortune. I wouldn’t mind being in that situation.
I am all for political correctness and some restraint is needed.
But I also seen people criticizing other people for using their home country’s name Niger or the Spanish word for black as Spanish speakers (in that case even more cynical as the person who was criticised was a PoC from Cuba).
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