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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by WendyTheWillow on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:33PM (#38551786)
I don't get that, because we wait for people to do crimes before we punish them.
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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by illiac786 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @12:04AM (#38553034)
again, I'm not talking about arrest or punishment.

I'm talking about prevention. Like "don't walk at night in this area alone".

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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by WendyTheWillow on Thursday December 07, 2023 @01:13PM (#38559726)
That rule is as a result of bad things happening while walking alone at night.

I know what you’re talking about, I just don’t think you realize how such things become rules. We very rarely, if ever, create preventative rules, and when we do the rules are terrible because we don’t know the issue well enough.

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