Comment by phoghed
3 hours ago
> If you hack a government website and access confidential information but don't do anything with it ("no harm") you're still going to prison.
You could potentially go to prison. Individuals and companies face different sets of consequences though.
The other side of the coin is that the government won’t suffer any consequences for having shitty security either.
I rarely notice usernames on HN, but after reading this comment it was so easy to guess that the classy contribution on another comment about legal liability was also yours.
And you are right again! The Australian government must compensate OpenAI for having shitty security.
It must be a bliss to transact with you in real life!
Honestly I’d expect my government to secure sensitive data to a higher standard than I’d expect a random company motivated only by profit to. We should have an expectation of both sides to do better. Do you disagree?
You are correct, but the regulatory and liability issue regarding AI is one issue and the government’s liability for having insecure systems is another.
They are independent concerns. A discussion about the first issue is not enhanced by the interjection of the second.
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