Yeah, not the same industry, but I’d never dream of putting valuable stuff on an unencrypted drive, shocked anyone has somehow missed all the stories of laptops getting stolen with secret documents on etc over the years.

One of my coworkers was once tasked with taking an encrypted database over to a hospital via sneakernet. He posted a selfie to twitter while on the subway with the handcuffed device, saying he was doing James Bond missions or something to that affect. He got a call SO FAST by our irate director asking him WTF he thought he was doing.

handcuffed device

I’m surprised he wasn’t stopped. I can’t imagine the authorities would look very kindly on someone handcuffed to a thing they’re holding, encrypted database or no.

I can’t imagine the authorities would look very kindly on someone handcuffed to a thing they’re holding, encrypted database or no.

Why?

It’d seem a bit suspicious, wouldn’t it?

I don’t see how or why. You’re obviously carrying something of value. If anything you’d be more concerned about attracting criminal attention. You’re not doing anything illegal, and no cop wants to mess with anybody rich enough to afford handcuffed couriers.

And what law would it violate?

No, why would it?

On the other hand, you’d expect that drive to be in a safe when not in use, surely?

You would expect a lot of security measures that aren’t actually ever followed at a lot of companies because they cost money. And I don’t mewn that the safe costs money. Paying someone to manage the safes and ensure they are used correctly (like no sticky note with the combo on the side). That is where the real cost is.

Our piracy teams are on high alert with the breach and will monitor.

Piracy team? You mean they’d pay me for what I do for free??

If you work in the industry then you know each studio works differently in particular to location.

Today maybe it is unheard of: but not even 15 yrs ago movies were getting delivered via harddrive in cookie tins to circumvent a very slow internet speed in australia. especially when they were cutting too close to delivery time. The persons handling it usually travelling with it. that was the security.

The only thing more risky if they were slapping a bunch of encryption all just to call in a 3rd party to bicycle it in and just expect them to not hurl it into an alley way and just to ding the app on the phone to say it arrived.

I know of a studio that does include 3rd parties in handling their equipment. So this scenario would not surprise me. nor would it surprise me if more than one studio was relying on 3rd parties right now.

they keep making their employees watch security videos.

It’s the 3rd party delivery persons that are under no such scrutiny.

Their piracy teams will

Do what, exactly? There is nothing they can do. The movie would have ended up on pirate sites eventually anyways, because they all do. There is no stopping piracy, especially because media providers are such greedy shit stains.

I would never have gotten back into piracy if it wasn’t for media providers being such assholes. Give me one provider that has it all, forever for the same fee, that allows me to use my own UI, and I’d gladly pay that monthly fee.

Piracy is a drag, it takes huge amounts of time and money and a lot of times the complete experience is sub-par. Sometimes the sub titles aren’t properly synced, and its always awesome that when at the end of a long day, you want to watch a movie with your wife, but you first need to spend 30 minutes properly syncing the sub titles, if they match at all and dont drift over time… I really prefer to pay a provider to do it all for me, but they can’t seem to do it without without wanting to steal my first born… So piracy it is, but YOU, Netflix, Hulu and all other shit providers, caused this

It is absolutely wild that people take a fuckin’ movie that seriously.

We’re very strange monkeys on a rock.

🤣 I was about to comment the same thing… These assholes are more careful with fucking movies than our healthcare data

Not the same people I reckon though.

It’s all because of money, and money is power. But yes we little monkeys have a worrisome preoccupation with that power.

Not that wild when you realize that 100’s of millions of dollars are on the line.