On 07/06/2021 06:13 PM, Harold Stevens wrote:
> In <sc1v2c$q0d$
1...@dont-email.me> John McCue:
>
>> incompetent, but these companies do *not* even get
>> embarrassed any more, never mind loosing some of their
>> bottom line. They just make their customers pay to
>> make up the difference.
>
> Exactly. The Equifax meltdown was the last straw for me.
>
> It was crystal clear to me Equifax not only didn't care one
> iota about system security. They also didn't care about the
> havoc they wreaked with customers' livea and finances.
>
> The penalties invovled for the criminal negligence amounted
> to ludicrous wrist slaps.
>
> Just for starters, useless "free credit monitoring" is like
> insurance companies handing out hammers and nails after the
> house burned down.
>
> Victims were left totally on their own in cleaning up their
> ruined credit and fending off collection agencies. For some
> it took years, and very often was never fully resolved.
>
> Now, malware is moving from purely financial losses, to the
> realm of outright physically threatening cyber warfare (the
> Colonial Pipeline debacle).
>
> None of these companies will even start to care until their
> top dawgs go to jail for deliberately enabling malware.
But these are the people who OWN a pockeful of senators,
congresscritters and judges. With money, and/or some
level of "indespensibility", the chances of these CEOs
and boards facing any serious penalties are very low.
The board will just offer up a human sacrifice or two
and that'll satisfy everybody important.
Re-read your Machiavelli - especially his 'Discourses'.
That's how things REALLY work. Have for thousands of
years. Your only good defense ; become ONE of them.
Unfortunately, it is now essentially impossible to NOT
have a substantial online shadow. I suppose you could
move to Congo or Afghanistan or into the depths of
the Amazon and just disappear off the radar, but it
won't be much of a life. Your best weapon is lawyers
who specialize in gouging those who gouged you. They
WILL take a fat cut though .....