In what is one of the most cringe-worthy security moves in recent memory, Snapchat posted a response late last month to claims of risk that outlined just how a hacker might be able to match usernames to phone numbers.
To keep out gate-crashers, hosts at Cannes resort to security worthy of Devil's Island.
Under the particular circumstances of this case, the Applicant has not met his burden of proving that he is worthy of a security clearance".
Now the neighborhood is about to land one of its odder residents — an enormous, high-tech warehouse with security worthy of James Bond, all to protect the multimillion-dollar artworks, manuscripts, furniture and even rare cars that Christie's, the upscale auction house, plans to store on the docks.
While marriage equality is certainly a worthy goal, employment security seems even more vital.
The bull market of the 1990's, Mr. Levy said, was "collective madness," floating "almost entirely on illusions" that included bookkeeping sleight of hand, the acceptance of stocks as the only securities worthy of the savvy and the notion that a new economy could grow forever.
He would have had to summon all his rhetorical skill to explain to the country why, in spite of the failure to find weapons, ending tyranny in Iraq and helping it to become a pioneering democracy in the Middle East was morally correct, important for American security, and worthy of a generational effort.
For years, Google maintained a wall of silence worthy of a government security agency on how much electricity the company used — a silence that experts speculated was used to cloak how quickly it was outstripping the competition in the scale and efficiency of its data centers.
The nativists are ascendant in the Republican Party as final negotiations begin in Congress on a major immigration-reform bill that is rooted in a demagogic movement to strengthen border security (a worthy objective, but not one likely to be achieved by such craven symbolic gestures as the deployment of National Guard troops).
Executives like the CEO, CIO and CISO are supposed to pull this together into a set of company goals and define the enterprise common good, but in reality, it tends to be much more fragmented and it's tough to convince the C suite that in fact identity and security are worthy of significant investment, more so than say marketing, sales or product development.
