, 2005-04-14
The recent string of high profile security breaches doesn't even hit the radar of the average user worried about the privacy of his personal information.
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Privacy From the Trenches
, 2005-04-14 The recent string of high profile security breaches doesn't even hit the radar of the average user worried about the privacy of his personal information.
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And about unconcerned users: my mother was spammped after she subscribed to a mailing list. Before that all my talk on privacy, security, "all that complex things" remained unnoticed. But then it happened. Now she (sometimes) thinks _before_ submitting, not after.
The treats of modern hi-tech are described quite good in Garfinkel's "Database Nation". I think of the article like of a good illustration to the book.
But I think the treat is inevitable. Like in any adaptive comlex system in IT sphere there is:
a) Changing conditions (new treat)
b) System response (re-adaptation, generation of new defence technologies)
c) Treat mutation to something new and more complex (i.e. more dangerous)
... You can imagine the rest
What I simply can not apprehend is why Americans speak only of American problems. Problem of privacy and informational security is international and worldwide by its nature. It is not very far-sightedly to introduce a new federal US law while folks from China or Russia or Honduras will own site like Zaba's. Is it unlikely? They can not do it, huh?
I do not think so. Can crackers, carders, social engineers form _international_ gangs? Why not, friends? Dollars are dollars everywhere. And while all security techs will dig their own hole in their own country -- things wuill be like this...Forever?
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