Re:Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests
by wlesieutre on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:37PM
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As a car driver, do you want to live in a world where "braking for pedestrians in crosswalks is a top priority" on every trip? Does such a world even make economic sense after accounting for the opportunity cost of the time that most drivers would otherwise spend moving toward their destinations?
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Re:Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests
by mjparrott on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:01PM
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Haha THIS is spot on. Sure, 1 person's address isn't the end of the world ... but 500,000,000 people's information in 1 incident is class action material
Re:Marriott hack hits 500M Starwood guests
by wlesieutre on Friday November 30, 2018 @02:20PM
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And it's not like I'm advocating that every single company needs bulletproof security that can stand up to nation-state adversaries with budgets bigger that the company, I agree with GP that it just wouldn't be economical.
To stretch the car/driver analogy, you could limit all cars to 10 mph so that they can stop fast enough when a deer runs into the road unexpectedly, but that's probably not worth the tradeoff.
Pedestrians, on the other hand, are a predictable fact of life that you need to deal with when you get in a car. So are bad people on the internet. If you put something on an internet connection and aren't constantly aware of that, you should not be putting it on the internet.