Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by Nasrudith on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:37PM
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Oh we can figure out what to log - and figure out how it would suck donkey balls. Just like the other "too hard" areas like the magic golden key backdoor.
It can trivially backfire to make things less secure if it is poorly defined which is generally a given. The GDPR made exfiltration easy as an account compromise - one could argue it is an acceptable trade off for transparency but the regulators must bear full responsibility for their constraints.
"We can't log sensitive customer data slowing down debugging and worsening data integrity" is one thing but now imagine "can't log customer IDs in a read only way as sensitive information" oops there goes a lot of useful auditing information as it is excluded or forced to be writeable.
It can trivially backfire to make things less secure if it is poorly defined which is generally a given. The GDPR made exfiltration easy as an account compromise - one could argue it is an acceptable trade off for transparency but the regulators must bear full responsibility for their constraints.
"We can't log sensitive customer data slowing down debugging and worsening data integrity" is one thing but now imagine "can't log customer IDs in a read only way as sensitive information" oops there goes a lot of useful auditing information as it is excluded or forced to be writeable.