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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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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I understand that there is always a fall guy. Even before AI was shoved everywhere, those really responsible for the problems they created were not held accountable and put the blame on a fall guy.