Quote Originally Posted by kaiyouske View Post
This is not true. Hacking is illegal therefore the hacker is the one at fault here.

As for your analogy, it would be more like you leaving your password on a post-it note in public. Unauthorized access of anything is considered illegal.
And what part of your analogy is different from mine. You're leaving your password/key to your property unsecured. People do it all the time because they "never had something bad to them" happen before. It only takes one time for people to smarten up, and some people still insist on convenience over security.

At no point in time is SE at fault for blame if you lose access to your account if you did not do everything in your power to secure it, and related accounts. People still leave their keys in the ignition when they go to drop a letter in the mailbox, and people still leave passwords written down on sticky notes and don't delete emails containing usernames and passwords.

The point of this thread was someone insisting that the BBB is their solution. It is not. Want to know how the BBB works?

X many people complain about service not being provided by Y
BBB calls up Y and tells them they will get a bad rating if they do nothing to fix X's problem.

The follow up to that is, because of the bad rating, people won't go to that company for service, hence the car analogy. This is why it doesn't work if there is no competing service. SE can just ignore the BBB forever until something bad happens on a huge scale that really is their fault, in which case it's not the BBB that does anything, but the Media attention. The BBB just asks for membership fees, and their "bad rating" magically goes away, even if the complaints continue.