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Fallacy of appeal to worse problems.

That argument could just as equally validate them ignoring their job altogether and collecting a paycheck from the beach of Aruba.

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But its reality of dealing with people who understandably dont move at the same pace the tech industry does. That gap exists and keeps growing. And has consequences.

But that reality has nothing to do with the issue addressed in the article or the defense of Meta that the comment you responded to talks about. Irresponsible or ignorant users didn't cause Meta to ignore security basics in their release and it doesn't explain defending that incompetence.

Google Jeff Horwitz a journo who has covered Meta for many years. He says both are happening. Sometimes Meta is irresponsible and sometime people make mistakes or dont know any better. You reduce it to one dimension at your own risk.

Has he written about this incident? What specifically about user behavior applies to this incident? I'm not reducing anything to anything, you just haven't haven't explained what about user behavior contributed to what the post is about.

duh users are sharing private info with publicly accesible links. The person they share it with can reshare it with whoever they feel like. Obviously the user hasnt thought abt what they are doing. You cant protect everyone from their own ignorance all the time. This is what I meant by a growing gap between what an avg user is expected to know and what they actually know.

"Claroc researchers were able to discover the Muse share links because all of them use the domain name cf.metaaiusercontent.com. Discovery is further made easy by the decision to add the conversation name to the URL, along with a long string of text. Simplified examples of such links are home-sale-budget-9f21c8a3.cf.metaaiusercontent.com, q3-revenue-review-7b1e42f0.cf.metaaiusercontent.com, and loan-application-draft-a4c9e2.cf.metaaiusercontent.com. It’s this last design decision, putting the conversation title in the subdomain rather than in the URL path, that makes public discovery possible."

Yeah, clearly it's the idiot users...

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