@nazgul they did catch the person, presumably because of audit logging. of course, that's an after-the-fact mitigation.
our work has involved insider risk modeling and mitigations for it. every large organization has its own broken dynamics that aren't quite like any other's, but we can imagine the conversations in which stakeholders would have decided that it's not worth spending money on ways to prevent abuse, because the logging already exists....
@nazgul honestly, and we realize our privilege is showing here, but
the thing that blows our mind every time we see reporting on a story about bribery involving classified information is how small the monetary amounts are
like, it's a lot of money but it's also ... not? not in proportion to the seriousness of the responsibility, we mean
@ireneista@nazgul That was kind of how I felt reading the news about the recent spate of briberies in New York City. IIRC, it was about $40k in total across all the different people that were bribed, which feels like a startlingly low cost for just buying your own laws.
@xgranade@ireneista@nazgul Clearly this is an example of free market capitalism supply and demand at its best. Demand is low compared to supply because "the left" refuses to bribe politicians, and so prices are kept low.
