{"id":11034,"date":"2014-03-08T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T06:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=11034"},"modified":"2015-10-31T21:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:28:32","slug":"all-passwords-must-be-changed-now-give-us-10-bucks-said-comixology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/all-passwords-must-be-changed-now-give-us-10-bucks-said-comixology\/","title":{"rendered":"“all passwords must be changed, now give us 10 bucks,” said @comiXology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just days after releasing a statement regarding a ‘recent review and upgrade’ of their ‘security infrastructure,’ comic powerhouse ComiXology is pushing their Submit Starter Pack at SXSW for a mere $10, 97% off the cover price.<\/p>\n

In other words, “We’ve compromised your data, now give us your money.”<\/p>\n

It’s a sad state of affairs when marketing trumps privacy and security, and there’s no stopping the freight train of promotion and hype. Probably worse than ComiXology’s matter-of-fact press releases are the other blogs that hand-to-mouth<\/a> whatever press release they’re fed and don’t even mention the recent security breach. That said, I probably plan on picking up the Starter Pack (sale ends tomorrow), because 100 comics for $10 is awesome. But it makes me cringe thinking about how that money will be allocated – security doesn’t seem to be at the top of their agenda:<\/p>\n

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Just days after releasing a statement regarding a ‘recent review and upgrade’ of their ‘security infrastructure,’ comic powerhouse ComiXology is pushing their Submit Starter Pack at SXSW for a mere $10, 97% off the cover price. In other words, “We’ve compromised your data, now give us your money.” It’s a sad state of affairs when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekathon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/comixology_10bucks_crop.png?fit=845%2C672&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2RY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11034"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15237,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions\/15237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11034"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}