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2019-07-08
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dharrigan07:07:56

Good Morning, Good Morning!

xianralph10:07:24

Hi all, unfortunately we have had to cancel tonight's clojure dojo at uswitch tonight. 😔 Apologies for late notice and any inconvenience. See you all next month as usual. I'll send an email out shortly and update the meetup accordingly

Wes Hall11:07:49

Just in case anybody is having a bad day today, look on the bright side, at least you are not the GDPR officer for British Airways... unless you are... in which case, bad luck fam.

dharrigan12:07:19

Oh, they'll probably weasel the amount down to a pittance.

Wes Hall12:07:54

£183m strikes me as being on the steep side in the first place. I do love the way that they are claiming it was some sophisticated attack though, when, from what I can see, it appears to be a fairly standard XSS style thing.

Wes Hall12:07:40

Apparently they could have been fined 1/2 billion though. I've got no idea what size of a fine would actually collapse BA, but that's gotta be up there.

Wes Hall12:07:50

The interesting thing is, assuming you are some nefarious entity, you don't even need to do a lot of hardcore work to interrupt a given economy. Just do a little script kiddy work and let the ICO do it for you... 🙂

mccraigmccraig12:07:59

@wesley.hall time to invest in the infosec hardening sector ?

Wes Hall12:07:57

Haha! If the fine stands, i'd definitely say yes.

Wes Hall12:07:48

I'm fully expecting a few, "Don't end up like BA", style pitches hitting my LI inbox in the coming months.

mccraigmccraig12:07:43

don't end up like BA - consign buffer overflows, unhandled cases, shape errors and bad refs to the bin - switch to haskell tomorrow, let us show you how!

jasonbell12:07:15

I see a new vocation in marketing @mccraigmccraig 🙂

mccraigmccraig12:07:54

i'm all over it, expecting the 💵 any time now

jasonbell12:07:17

Instagram influencers is where the $$$ is at

Wes Hall12:07:39

What's the haskell marketing budget?

jasonbell12:07:00

Usually 0% of the total marketing budget.

dharrigan12:07:12

I avoid BA thesedays as a service, it's a vicious circle, their service has deteriorated, so I don't fly, less money, service deterioration.

Wes Hall12:07:52

I've found you can save a lot of money if you just embed a script on their booking page and use other people's credit cards

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