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The only way to move forward is to put that past behind us. I think a distinction should be made between revisiting history (in a bid to understand how we got where we are now), and assigning blame.

I'm not sure how we can move forward without some degree of empathy; "Yes, you got the short end of the stick, but how about if we try such and such to ameliorate the impact of the past on your present".

I don't think you are advocating sweeping the past under the rug, I'm just saying that telling a person who is still feeling the sting of a perceived slight (real or imagined) is unlikely to result in moving forward.

Pardon my ignorance or perhaps its just that I've become jaded, but outside of circumstances with dire/sever consequence such as laws, regulations, etc how does an independent audit (legit accreditation or not) verify what happens after the audit is done and the auditors long gone?

How does an independent audit detect out of band taps (swapping binaries, re purposing archives/backups, mirroring, etc) on infrastructure the auditor wasn't monitoring before the audit? logs? but more importantly amortized or not the customer eventually pays for all this activity that at the end of the day is more fluff than substance (in terms of what the customer can actually verify) In the end doesn't all this come down to just another form marketing?

Please note, that I recognize that there are many scenarios where an independent audit would add value. I just don't think it adds anything that social validation doesn't already add when considered from the perspective of a consumer to whom the infrastructure behind the service is unavoidably opaque.

OT: Can somebody please tell em, to stop the excessive use of css animations(the moving star field background). It pegs one of my cores, and raises my laptops temperature to the point where i can feel it. Worse still, it really adds nothing to the ability to peruse information, if anything I find it distracting! </rant>