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Re:Adobe To Pay $1M For Data Breach, Bolster Security, North... by MarkMc on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:20PM (#12964507)
There are lots of shady lawyers out there, and this would give them an incentive to pay hackers to increase the size of data breaches.
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Re:Adobe To Pay $1M For Data Breach, Bolster Security, North... by graeme on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:52PM (#12964615)
Indeed. Seems like a cobra effect situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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Re:Adobe To Pay $1M For Data Breach, Bolster Security, North... by fgonzag on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:45AM (#12964809)
But it wouldn't be a reward. It'd be a fine paid to the government. The only real reason with malicious intent I can see from it is people intentionally hacking companies to bankrupt them or cripple them. But that just means they had weak security anyways
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Re:Adobe To Pay $1M For Data Breach, Bolster Security, North... by graeme on Sunday November 20, 2016 @02:22PM (#13000585)
The OP was talking about class action lawsuits. The plaintiffs in class actions are individuals, not governments. I took that the mean the OP was talking about penalties to private actors, rather than to governments.
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