alt Hacker NewsWhy single out the Chinese government? No government anywhere cares about defective software. "Engineering" is certainly not the correct term to apply to this industry.
[1] Yahoo lost all of their 3 billion account credentials https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/0000732712170...
[2] Equifax lost PII of 150 million Americans, including their SSNs https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/equifax-data-breach-...
[3] AT&T loses SSNs of 73 million customers https://about.att.com/story/2024/addressing-data-set-release...
[4] AT&T loses phone call/texting metadata of 110 million customers https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/0000732717240...
[5] Change Healthcare loses medical records of 200 million Americans https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/c...
To someone not drinking your nationalist kool-aid, it looks rather preposterous to make this about the Chinese bogeyman.
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Yes, which is I am so bullish into having this industry getting liability like everywhere else.
Cybersecurity laws are a good start, however thanks to lobbying it will still take decades.
Yeah. I subscribe to a mailing list from a data security company that sends me a summary of breaches, daily. I know it is in their interest to keep me worried. But they aren’t making these stories up.