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Richard Blumenthal: “It's the difference between a security consultant who says about your home, you have this vulnerability to forced entry…”

On the recordFebruary 5, 2018
It's the difference between a security consultant who says about your home, you have this vulnerability to forced entry and the criminal who says you have this vulnerability to forced entry and I have your child, pay me a $100,000. That's ransom. It's a crime.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Blumenthal compares security consultants to criminals to highlight the seriousness of data exploitation.

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