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  •  Car   ( @Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
    5•5 months ago

    Someday, our immortal cyber personas, born from black box AI-created manifestations of our real selves, will be so disappointed in us.

    It’s almost not even possible to not have an online presence somewhere liable for compromise and abuse these days. That is unless you were born and kept off the grid by some weird cult.

  •  demesisx   ( @demesisx@infosec.pub ) English
    2•5 months ago

    Reposted comment:

    I have a solution:

    governments should heavily fine companies that are subject to data breaches.

    If it cost them real money (proportional to their market cap, the amount of customers affected, and/or the severity of the breach) to allow a data breach, I’m betting they’d shore up those holes REALLLLLLLLLL QUICK.

    •  ursakhiin   ( @ursakhiin@beehaw.org ) English
      4•5 months ago

      While I agree that this should happen when negligence is found, don’t be fooled into thinking that will prevent breaches entirely.

      As long as things are available online there will be data breaches. Many of them will be a result of negligence. Some of them will be the result of zero day vulnerabilities, though.

      •  demesisx   ( @demesisx@infosec.pub ) English
        3•5 months ago

        Agreed. It WOULD make them almost entirely go away, though. CEO’s are required to do what is best for their bottom line, BY LAW. So, IMO it is essential that this is codified into law in the US in particular because that is the ONLY language that multinational corporations understand and spend real money on fixing.

        IMO, It would also help to tip the badly imbalanced scales of profit over to the side of white hat hackers too since organizations that employ black hat hackers creating ransomware make literally TENS OF BILLIONS a year. If I were a hacker (I’m not), at the current market rate, being a white hat hacker is significantly less profitable.