Reply to post: Re: Please re-read the article, between three lines

Jeff Bezos feels a tap on the shoulder. Ahem, Mr Amazon, care to explain how Capital One's AWS S3 buckets got hacked?

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Re: Please re-read the article, between three lines

"We aren't talking about a $40 home router bought at a box store and plugged into a cable modem, we are talking about enterprise-class device configurations that don't route ANYTHING unless being told to do so"

With that statement, you have apparently missed the point of the senator's enquiry: Are you SURE about that?

Amazon may *claim* that their configurations are correct yet 106 million data points, taken from a company that most certainly has an in-house tech department and therefore tried its very best to assure data safety compliance, seem to prove otherwise.

You are assuming automatic secure profile configuration. Remember the union rule about assume, "You make an a...."

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