In response to 53-million customer data breach, Home Depot buys Macs and IPhones...

[ThoughtCriminal]

for "senior executives".

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/home-depot-blames-windows-record-hack-rushes-buy-141037869.html

If a Home Depot truck ran into a bus, I assume that the senior executives would get new BMWs.

[Dreamer Tatum]

1. I'm sorry, can you please explain your position?

An eyeroll is usually not informative.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. Buying new Apple toys for senior executives

DOES NOTHING!!!! to address the security breach that compromised their network.

Clear enough?

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. Sure it does.

Apple products are more secure, ergo less risk of data loss and intrusion.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. the senior executive PC's are not where Home Depot keeps customer data

You get two:

[Dreamer Tatum]

7. you seem to think an Apple pc is a perk to an exec

As an exec I can assure you they're no big deal at all. Don't get your attitude.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. It was a perk, nothing more.

and an insult to the customers who were compromised.

Home Depot hopes that people will buy into the idea that if the CEO has a Mac on his desk, then their data is now safe. Never mind that servers are still windows, the PC's in the stores are Windows XP and that they share your data (email, credit card info), etc with 3rd party "affiliates" (pretty much anyone who does business with them). No worries, the executives now have iPhones!

I didn't expect to actually find somebody who would.

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. it's probably part of a larger initiative

But whatever.

[Initech]

6. The key word there is "less" risk.

The only computers that are safe from hacking and data intrusion are the ones that aren't hooked into a network. Any computer, phone, tablet, running any operating system whether it's Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Firefox OS, Blackberry OS, any Linux variant, I could go on and on, is just as susceptible to a data breach as the next is.

[Initech]

4. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! Mac OS X can be hacked just like Windows, Android, or any other OS.

They just wasted their money.