But they allowed that exact situation for a while now and no one cared. Stupid security but politically safe since Trump would never investigate.

Big corps never pivot throughout the whole corp for a single issue, only when risk in a certain context keeps compounding. The Dem wins compounded risk of legal action; it's not just that the laws are on the books. They were on the books a month ago.

"Yeah that's what I said it's to hedge legal risk."

It's the way you said it; ignoring potentially relevant political context. A lot the rhetoric demonizing politics is intentional to embed a negative reaction causing us to discount it's value

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JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> they allowed that exact situation for a while now and no one cared

Source for them having allowed it versus not tightly enforced IT rules?

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graemep 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is global, starting with Hong Kong months ago. I doubt fear of US regulators were was the motive.

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pitched 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ELINA, please! As a non-American, I don’t understand why anyone would care about Trump in this context. Aren’t the people who look into these things different departments? And don’t they only look into anything after a breach?

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oblio 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The current administration was basically "corporations, do whatever you want as long as it doesn't interfere with our money making".

A lot of people felt, and there seems to be mounting proof, that the administration wasn't going to enforce a lot of laws, especially since their stance was to cut the agencies in charge of that (SEC, FTC, FCC, EPA, FDA, IRS, etc).

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1718627440 4 hours ago | parent [-]

So a lot of companies assumed that that was not going to change in the future, aka. that the Trump administration is final and democracy is finished in the USA; do I understand this correctly?

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oblio 4 hours ago | parent [-]

These days democracies are a lot fuzzier and there are lots of degrees, many named flawed democracies.

And the current president still needs to hand over the reins peacefully so I wouldn't declare victory, yet.

	▲	1718627440 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> And the current president still needs to hand over the reins peacefully so I wouldn't declare victory, yet. Sure, my point is about that basically companies already made decisions based on the assumption, that he will not do that.