Re:Coding Flaw Exposes Voter Details for 6.5M Israelis
by deepspace on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:40PM
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> it is inevitable that the concept of privacy is going to be absolutely destroyed in the future,
Totally agree, and I am on record as saying that this will happen sooner than people think. Given the rate at which large-scale data breeches keep happening and the lack of ANY kind of consequences for companies and institutions who fail to protect data, I firmly believe that pretty much all personal data belonging to everyone will be either publicly accessible or available for sale by 2025 at the latest.
For most people their address history, phone numbers, medical history, financial transaction history, account- and other ID numbers, browser/search history and every email they ever sent or received will be available for search or purchase.
> Breaches like this should be impossible as there should be designs against it.
I see it the other way around. Privacy is equal to security, it is only as strong as its weakest link, and there are many many “links” (attack vectors) and the amount of data you can breach with asymmetric attacks is unprecedented. By way of ergodicity, everything’s going to be leaked eventually, no matter how good our intentions are to protect it.
If you take everything to its logical conclusion, it is inevitable that the concept of privacy is going to be absolutely destroyed in the future, and everyone will know everything about everyone at all times. The latest privacy laws are futile attempts to put the finger in the dike before it explodes; too little, too late.