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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)

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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I feel this way about things like companies, too. It must always be human beings that bear the personal responsibility for an organization’s crimes, not “the company” alone. When money can pay in lieu of personal responsibility, then there is no justice or accountability.