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user-inactivated  ·  3067 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 9.3M Patient Records Hacked

    I've said more than a few times that it's my wife's medical office I care about.

You never once said that. Twice you claimed it was a blacksmith office, and other times you said it was an "office".

You continuously put words and arguments into my mouth.

Every argument you've ever had against IT including the ones you just stated I've had myself against other IT workers and I've tried to explain that.

The only thing you've gotten right is that I think that if you have sensitive data, you should protect it. Because sensitive data is like a loaded gun. If you have a loaded gun, you should be trained to use it properly without killing people accidentally. That's not a controversial statement even to gun nuts. I've witnessed what improperly used sensitive data causes. It turns people living in houses into people living in the streets.

    I'm escalating things into personal attacks because you don't get it. Your attitude is why, as a profession, nobody likes IT professionals. On the one hand, you insist that we need not be competent. On the other hand, you insist that competence is the only ward against tragedy. It's patronizing at best and delusional at worst.

Personal attacks are not what a place for civil discussions are for, which is what this place is supposed to be about. You paint me into a corner that I don't really occupy, and then you attack me relentlessly and I have to defend myself with equal force. Even if I were to say something that were disagreeable, it's not a proper way to have a debate.

You and other people keep turning "debates" into these venting sprees where you group whatever select group of people you once had a bad experience with and say it's the whole group's problem. Muslims, black people, white people, police, whatever. Our civilization has completely lost it's mind, and the diagnosed insane people are sitting on the sidelines thinking, "why are we called insane again?"

I'm done with this, and I'm done with you. You can say it's because it's my attitude or I'm an elitist asshole I don't care. You can turn all of Hubski against me, I don't care about that either, because Hubski isn't the place for civilized debate that it claims to be. It's Reddit and Twitter with a different skin.

Welcome to my hush, filter, and mute lists. Because that's what it's for: trolls. I'm done feeding the troll. And I'm done being bullied around.