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Re:Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach by zer00eyz on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:14PM (#15340639)
Your describing an unfortunate series of events. Were talking about a company who had "admin" as a user name and password on a database with consumer data on it.

> The better solution is to work this one out as a society. Stop relying on things like SSNs and maiden name as "security", and stop building enormous silos of unnecessary data.

This doesn't stop aggregators from forming, the data has value someone will collect and sell it.

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Re:Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:16PM (#15340663)
The only place this issue ends up, if pushed hard enough in the Congress, is mandatory licensing (with fees, of course) for software engineers. Best case: you limit such licensing requirements to certain domains.
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