"Maine" is a lot shorter than "an entire state."
I hate this "obscure the most relevant information for clicks" shit.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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They probably assumed people would know which state they're talking about. Classic Maine character syndrome.
Badum-tsss!
Steven King knows.
At least they didn't divide it up into a slideshow, with two lines of the article per slide. I've been seeing a ton of those lately.
THIS. I FUCKING HATE THIS. WHOEVER CAME WITH THAT CAN GET FUCKED.
Maine hardly counts as "an entire state" by population anyway! 1.3 million? Oooooh, that's like... San Diego!
And yet it’s still more than 2 Wyomings
The amount of people doesn’t define what a state is.
Sadly true, that's why the Senate is so fucking misrepresentative. And the Electoral College.
Still, I'll put up with my lack of equal federal voting power for the benefits of living in California.
I was just cocking a snook at the clickbaity headline.
And Maine.
To be fair, "an entire x" does have markedly different connotation than "x". The emphasis is that it's, well, the entirety of x. It's the difference between "i ate the cereal" and "i ate all the cereal".
They could have easily fit "the entire state of Maine".
For sure, but as long as clickbait works they'll keep doing it.
Not "just"... It happened in May
I think Mashable needs to talk to their own InfoSec team for an education.. Stealing data and ransomware are not the same thing.
Hate the headline.
Also, Oregons DMV was compromised in the MoveIt, so my biometrics were also taken. Pair that with the notice I received from Blue Cross/Blue Shield that their data processor was compromised mean every appointment, diagnosis and medical issue and my biometrics details were also compromised.
I was really pissed about both of those and the fact there is no accountability and I'll get a $4 settlement from some shitty class action and 24-48 months of "Identity protection", since, as we all know, data thieves only use stolen data in the first few years after it's stolen. Especially biometric data that can't change like eye color, height, and medical conditions.
The US needs aggressive consumer protections to be able to delete and limit data storage ala California's law, but also default separate storage for legacy info or auto-deletion after a certain time period to limit damage.