There’s something to be said about old school bureaucratic institutions: it made breaches like this significantly more difficult to pull off and far less valuable as a result.

It also ensured democratic participation by all of the people employed there making sure that processes are followed and making sure no one is cheating.

We all knew that systems like this would get breached. It’s not a matter of, “if,” but, “when.” If we’re going to continue down this route because of convenience or surveillance and authoritarianism or whatever; people designing these systems need to thinking: When this system is breached…. And they should make sure there’s a good story for protecting people and the system from these sorts of events.