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> Compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world, the company told Bloomberg on Tuesday. The personal information of about 7 million drivers was accessed as well, including some 600,000 U.S. driver’s license numbers. No Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken, Uber said.

The most painful words in the English language are: Stallman was right again

<Reasons not to use Uber

> We should not accept the promotional term "sharing economy" for companies like Uber. That is spin. A more accurate term is "piecework subcontractor economy". Uber is a big advance in massive surveillance. Unlike a taxi, an Uber car can't be used anonymously. You can't pay cash. It also requires use of nonfree software, which mistreats the user.

> Because I reject technology that mistreats me, I will never order or pay for an Uber car. Because Uber threatens to eliminate the taxis that are acceptable to use, I go beyond that: I will not let someone order an Uber car for me. How about joining me?

https://stallman.org/uber.html

>>825826

Has he ever been wrong????

Hah, that's what you get for trying to fuck taxi workers.

>>825861

I don't think it's wrong to provide more competition in the marketplace. I think it's wrong to abdicate your responsibility in your business. Increasing the work burden inherently means increasing the cost of the service. Uber's system works because they've decided that they aren't going to take the burdens that is required of the fully regulated taxi services. For me, that is the wrong way of business.

>Uber said it will provide drivers whose licenses were compromised with free credit protection monitoring and identity theft protection.

kek, what the fuck is?

>>825910

>>825894

DELETE THIS!

>>825855

He's wrong pretty much every time he talks about something outside of the tech sphere.

>>825861

>that's what you get for trying to fuck taxi workers

so you're saying some pajeet taxi driver 1337 super h4xx0r script kiddie is behind the uber hack all because all he ever wanted in life was to drive a taxi so he could afford a toilet like some kind of plot stolen from an indian rewrite of taxi driver?

>>825926

If we find the perpetrators wrote java ransomware, we know what's up.

>Uber hacked

Why the fuck would they want to hack glorified taxies?

I mean, the Ashley Madison hack was pretty kekkie but taxi information?

>>825950

What a cutie. I hope her penis is equally as feminine.

>>825926

>indian rewrite of taxi driver

Sir are you talkin to me

Sir are you talkin to me

Sir are you talkin to me

Please do the needful

>ITT /tech/ cucks for government regulated taxis

>>825987

What's the difference between corporation oligopoly and government in current year?

You didn't elect the corporation.

>>826014

You don't elect your government either.

see: dead people 'voting', fake government-issued IDs for foreigners who get welfare, welfare customers voting in exchange for mattresses/building materials, sleazy party affiliates who take your ID away until you vote a certain candidate (and get a position/money out of it), e-voting, etc.

>>825826

Even if you don't give a shit about freedumb you shouldn't support Uber based solely on the fact that they shouldn't be legal to begin with and they treat their employees like absolute dogshit.

They're going to eventually collapse, I promise you that. They can only ride this loophole bullshit for so long.

>>825945

Gee, why would you want personal information on millions of people, I couldn't possibly begin to guess.

WET WATER FOUND!

*yawn*

>>826075

Go back to yet another "What browser should I use guyzzz XXDD!???" thread.

>>826014

Who ever said that transportation networks were an oligopoly?

>>826047

Let other services out-compete them. Fuck taxis and government bureaucracy.