Sounds like the whole world should stop trusting US businesses.

This story made me so mad I puked. I just am at a loss for words…

So they are going to just exclusively start hiring pedophiles huh…

Well the only long term storage solution is effectively making blocks of coal. Which requires a bunch of energy via non-carbon sources.

The chemistry for carbon capture from the atmosphere is far less efficient than carbon capture at the source but turning off the sources is a much better solution.

That all being said, as long we as a society retains access to above an EROEI of 30, it is a viable option but below that; not a chance in hell.

It would be more secure if the credentials are in an in memory SQLite Database but that would require you to use something other than the shell. You would need to do a hardware key or have the user do a bootstrap password or have an API that uses a public key to authenticate the remote process passing the credentials

Well did the samba user account (used to connect to the samba share) have access to the files?