Internet Hacking Is About to Get Much Worse -- We can no longer leave online security to the market.

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[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

and the same site is asking me to disable my ad-blocker. heh.

The primary reason computers are insecure is that most buyers aren’t willing to pay — in money, features, or time to market — for security to be built into the products and services they want. As a result, we are stuck with hackable internet protocols, computers that are riddled with vulnerabilities and networks that are easily penetrated.

i think this is bs. since when we have a say, what they are trying to push down our throats?

[–]Mnemonic[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

True, even if we paid a lot of money, it still would be hackable.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

i think the main point is to notice how they are always shifting the blame on the people, who in fact have zero say about r&d, marketing or any kind of strategy / resource use of any corporation there is. they learned this from the church, who made its living by guilt tripping us for millenia. its the same people.

[–]Mnemonic[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hmm I do think he wasn't blaming the people too much, see the subtitle "We can no longer leave online security to the market".

It's a general appeal to reform laws defending people andmaking companies who claim to be secure responsible for hacks.

Regulation is inevitable. Our choice is no longer between government regulation and no government regulation, but between smart government regulation and ill-advised government regulation. Government regulation is not something to fear. Regulation doesn’t stifle innovation, and I suspect that well-written regulation will spur innovation by creating a market for security technologies.