Take your social security number. Change the last number by one. Congrats, you have stolen someones number.
It isn't secure or random in any way. Infact, by doing the above you will have the number of a person born probably in the same hospital as you.
I see you subscribe to the moral theory of "I didn't click okay, I hit escape".
They didn't break any laws, they broke trust. Random people can leak all they want, they don't have institutional standing and respect. If what you said was true then it'd be pretty weird that every other institutional news, even gaming focused ones, have honored that request. Because doing otherwise is a dick move that kills your reputation, and the gaming industry is legendary for blacklisting for far less disrespectful moves. Downright petty with it.
My mother after I quit tried to pressure me to go back repetitively. Or take a job at another facility. I told her to look me in the eye while I say this, I would rather kill myself than do that again. Only evil people can stay at a job like that.
Fun fact. While I worked as a prison officer, an inmate was escorted to a back room of the medical area and beaten handcuffed while 9 people listened. I reported it and nothing happened. None of the 9 people besides myself corroborated the attack. Then my warden denied my transfer request and attempted to kill me by putting me back under the command of the person I had reported for abuse.
Guess it's not really a fun fact.
The Verge isn't pulling the article and they are currently backing their journo. The whole site is blacklisted at this point.
Except this is a game industry reputation ruined. It isn't just valve, why would any dev ever give the verge access again knowing that they will not only disrespect your requests but bitch and moan if you hold them to it.
It's a full rep killer. They will never have early access again for any company.
I wouldn't exactly call a bone in boneless wings asking for perfection. That's actually such a low bar that I can only imagine your standards of perfect must be absolute shit. Who hurt you?
Legality isn't morality, if your only defence to a moral charge is that it is legal then you are a wannabe slave owner born to the wrong time. Scum.
Then break a tooth when you bite too hard on a "boneless chicken"
Or what, you gonna say you chew slowly too?
It's actually kinda fucking insane of you to take the side of "business should be allowed to flat out lie to you, even after it almost kills someone". Maybe talk with a psychiatrist about your lack of empathy. There's probably a diagnosis for your level of sociopathy
I hope you choke on chicken bone while reading The Jungle. I hope for your last moments to be ironic.
The address does make it a lot more useful, but the point that I am making is simply that the number itself has never been secure, and this kinda failure was inevitable due to only needing slightly more info than the number itself. A number which itself is already partially identifying.
We shouldn't use social security numbers like we do.