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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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That Ain't Right Boy!
You seem to have a bloodlust to label certain segments of the population.Before you gripe at me, let me first clarify that I am not a spammer, and I do get hit by spammers in my blogs and forums.
Now, I just tagged people who post off topic comments on my web pages as spammers... this is incorrect. They are mass marketers. They in most cases are not breaking any laws, and for the most part are minor annoyances.
You called them criminals as if it were fact. NO NO NO... They are not criminals any more than you are.
Just because we do not like something that someone does, and just because we may enjoy societal approval for our accusations and bad mouthing toward these people, it doesn't make them criminals.