> In some sense, I feel that more blame should be placed on the engineers who built the highly popular open-source software, not the Equifax team.
I completely disagree. It is open-source for a reason. If you find a bug in it, fix it and everybody wins. Otherwise, nobody would ever publish any code/software because you would get sued if you did any mistake. On top of that, the software is free. So you basically want to blame some group which gave you something for free which you used to make big money and expect to also sue them for consequences if they made a mistake.
I also feel bad for the engineering team at Equifax. But on the other hand, you have to take into account that any software you employ could have a security flaw in it. That is why you should have additional means to protect it and no single point of failure. And this is especially true if your whole business depends on that data!
I completely disagree. It is open-source for a reason. If you find a bug in it, fix it and everybody wins. Otherwise, nobody would ever publish any code/software because you would get sued if you did any mistake. On top of that, the software is free. So you basically want to blame some group which gave you something for free which you used to make big money and expect to also sue them for consequences if they made a mistake.
I also feel bad for the engineering team at Equifax. But on the other hand, you have to take into account that any software you employ could have a security flaw in it. That is why you should have additional means to protect it and no single point of failure. And this is especially true if your whole business depends on that data!
edit: spell check