Comment by A4ET8a8uTh0
1 year ago
I am not sure how to approach it anymore. Frankly, since equifax breach and settlement I mostly gave up on hoping for any real change[1]. Whatever the catalyst will be for a shake up, it clearly won't be another -- sufficiently big -- breach. I was too optimistic about that.
It will need to be something public, scandalous and, ideally, affecting someone powerful enough to effect change and privacy-conscious enough to be pissed off enough to want to do anything about it.
edit:[1]https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/illinois-governor-a...
edit2: By scandalous I mean something that average person cares about. Based on initial reaction to this particular breach, I do not think it meets the criteria.
Ashley Maddison happened just under 10 years ago, that's as scandalous as it gets, and nobody cared either.
I'm with you on this.
At this point the only thing I think that could happen to change the status quo is a full blown war against a country that's going to use hacked data against the United States in such a disruptive way that the legislators would have to react due to national security concerns.
I think the opposite is a lot more likely.
WHen it comes to it, the US gov has incredible leverage with the data they have access to. If they forced all the major tech companies to release everything they have on the most powerful politicians of some country, including email contents, text messages, full search and location history and so on, they could cause quite a scandal.
You can probably overthrow quite a few governments with a judicious use of that power alone.