Re:A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked
by jgroszko on Friday June 29, 2018 @11:40AM
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Between Equifax and today Exactis both leaking 300M+ records it's not really a question of if, but rather how many times have I been pwned...
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Re:A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked
by Bartweiss on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:39PM
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As of now, there are 3 major data leak stories on the HN front page at the same time.
Passwords can at least be changed, but data leaks are basically entropic; there's no way to reverse the damage. I don't want to stop holding leak sources accountable for what they lose, but from a personal viewpoint I'm now more interested in mitigation than prevention...
Re:A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked
by rhizome on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:03PM
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I don't want to stop holding leak sources accountable for what they lose
Where is this happening? I'm not aware of any company being prosecuted (or even penalized in any significant way) for releasing data.
Re:A massive cache of law enforcement personnel data has leaked
by Bartweiss on Monday July 02, 2018 @10:13AM
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I meant socially, as a tech community - I'm wondering how to strike a balance between "realistically, your information will get leaked, plan accordingly" and "but that doesn't make it okay".
Legally, or even on a consumer level, I don't see any kind of meaningful consequence. And the rate of data loss probably won't go down until that changes.