> This move will drive more traffic to Amazon, unfortunately.
No it won't, at least not from my entire country.
BD: You pay $20-$40 for a book. It gets delivered to your door (mostly, after a period so long you forget which book you even ordered). You pay a tiny fixed local import tax (around $1).
Amazon.com: You pay $20-$40 for a book + $49.95 fixed delivery fee + ~$15 for "taxes and import duties".
I have never purchased a physical item from Amazon.com because of those fees. I have ordered dozens of books from BD, aware that it's owned by Amazon, because it was at a price I'm willing to pay for a book. I will continue not buying from Amazon.com because it's way above my price range (or really anyone's) for a physical book.
New laws make it mandatory to report this major type of breach in Australia to the Australian Cyber Security Centre within 24 hours. They had no choice, or risk having the full weight of the government come at them for trying to cover it up.
Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin did an interview with ABC today, and said "some of the customer information is information you would find on Facebook or LinkedIn such as name, date of birth, phone number and email address".
Umm...no. Most people do NOT publicise that information to the public.
Agreed. Until a CEO goes to jail for something like this, it'll continue to become a "pay the fine and move on" situation.
For international readers, Gladys Berejiklian was the Premier of the state of New South Wales, and resigned as Premier once it became public that she and her boyfriend were being investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Optus is the job she accepted while the corruption investigation continued.
The recent update to Cyber Security legislation in Australia specifically states that any major breach must be reported to the Australian Cyber Security Centre within 24 hours of becoming aware of it. "MAJOR" being subjective, but this easily qualifies.
There are significant penalties for not disclosing within this time period, which is why I think we are seeing this reported before Optus has a clearer plan of how to deal with it.
As a customer of Optus and cyber security trained professional, I'm very frustrated, to say the least.
Thank for that extra info on the obligatory reporting. Good for consumers to know now. I feel like this report could take months to come out in the US.
Opportunities, choices and consequences. You got the opportunity to meet a partner and chose to start a family. Not everyone gets that opportunity in life, so either be happy with your choices or make different ones. But every choice comes with consequences.
Oh yeah I'm happy with my bargain. I'm also curious to see if the author has found a way to make a living out of this. If for other reason that to live the dream vicariously.
> Of the 17 presidents from the last century, only three (and just nine total) are listed as having a net worth of less than one million
You might want to quote the sentence at the top of the Wikipedia table in your link, that says this is their "peak net worth" and "may occur after that president has left office".
Read through the list in the link below. McKinley, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Obama and Biden can't be considered to have been born into families of wealth.
> You might want to quote the sentence at the top of the Wikipedia table in your link
> can't be considered to have been born into families of wealth
And you, in turn, might want to quote the sentence at the top of my previous reply where I state that I am not talking about being born into wealth. 12, by the way, is still a small minority. The majority of American presidents were millionaires. It's pretty cut and dry.
This move will drive more traffic to Amazon, unfortunately.
I feel for you and your friends. It truly was disruptive when BD launched, and made such an impact on the book scene. Sad day.