Re:Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability
by cloakandswagger on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:09PM
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If that's the case then I'd suggest every software developer on this forum immediately switch careers, this one is doomed.
Re:Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability
by ridgeguy on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:49PM
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Well, there is that. Maybe reality is that no set of security practices can ever secure PII. If so, that's an even bigger problem than lackadaisical firms like Equifax.
But I think higher expectations, helped along with civil legal machinery that's likely to mete out meaningful punishment, would move us faster to finding out whether the problems are mostly just sloppy practice (which responds to economic penalties) or whether they're more fundamental and need a different fix.
The argument would be that the very fact that PII security was breached demonstrates defendant's negligent data storage/security practices. If those practices had been adequate, the breach would not have occurred.