Thanks! I haven't looked at Adobe for quite some years and I'm now quite surprised at their current products and services.

I don't think a crime can be established from the simple fact that they spread fake news... but the consequences from those fake news can be used as "deliberate attempt to cause indirect damage."

When you have a contract with the government, you're required to obtain security clearance for employees working on it. About 12 years ago when AWS challenged IBM's contract with with the CIA, they were offered at least some part of that contract. Few months afterwards, I was invited to interview with them. I was more than glad to accept that invitation and they first they told me: You must be able to pass "top secret" security clearance. I did some checking on the requirements and bowed out. I knew I wasn't going to get top secret clearance because my wife was not yet a citizen at the time.

So now circle back to MS.. how the hell did they get the contract with the DoD without understanding that they're required to get some kind of clearance for their employees, depending on the level of work on the project. More over, China isn't just a foreign country. The DoD considers it an adversary, an enemy when it comes to cyber warfare. To top it off, the Chinese have been hacking and stealing information from US firms since beginning of time. Allowing them to work on DoD projects with little supervision is not just lack of due diligence. It's an act of gross negligence amounting to felony.

The article mentions Adobe making prediction for the prime day sales. Is this the Adobe, maker of Photoshop? I've never been aware of an Adobe involved in the retail business.

Three big ass paragraphs... written in such well crafted language, only to mean that they hired illegals.

I've put many trolls in their place before. Truth is I ain't afraid of being modded down... I don't give a rats ass about those scores. I always have unused karma credits and I've used a few times before. Most of them gone expired. I always callout trolls who mod down for no reason.

I use social media casually and I did notice ridiculously false information being shared on a regular basis, coming from sources that I don't even follow. Regardless, I never knew about how much of it come from how many sources. Now that I get some glance of that data, I gotta say I'm quite surprised. I've always estimated the dis/misinformation come from a lot more sources, and that a good amount of them are individuals spreading fake news on their own. Boy wasn't I wrong. Given this information, I fail to see why social media companies allow them to exist to begin with.

It doesn't take a genius to "take care" of them:
1. Disallow VPN (streaming services do this to stop password sharing)
2. Identify their identities and the amount of dis/mis info they spread
3. Put together an estimate of damage they cause, work with authorities and get a warrant to search their place
4. Identify their true identities and work the legal angle from there
5. If those entities are government related, ban them for life!

Am I missing anything guys?

CA is being way too cocky about this. AI is still in its primitive stage. Every AI provider disclaims that their information is not guaranteed. Using this to manage electricity state-wide is literally playing with fires, of which we already have way more than we can handle, literally. In my opinion, leadership is so hell bent on politics that they forgot what their main job is. If you ask me, I don't trust them to manage a lemonade stand.

I appreciate the peaceful turn around. Regardless I'm going to choose not to engage your argument. Maybe in another thread where things can get a better start.

You're just another asshole who thinks you're a lot smarter than the rest of the world. Which gives you the right to lecture anybody you want to. You also think the US has the right to 'allow' other countries things. Truth is the more you try to lecture, the more you make yourself a fool. You praise your own freedom of speech, but when someone else speaks you belittle their opinions. All the iconic features of one thing: self-centered persons.

Well... there may have been many stories out there... but any company encountering this issue, it would be their own first time.

If you say something don't work... you gotta offer an alternative.

How he got terminated LOL

Software bugs are common when a side effect of programming creates an error. But writing code to achieve the opposite of the intended effect is a blatant and gross incompetence.

In order to work, a verified identity has to be confirmed. Even if it's a remote job, the candidate has to either be notarized or show their ID in person. How did these companies employ ghosts and not even know? What's more? How did work get done after they got hired? How did they attend onboarding orientation, get training, onboarded, credentials?