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I think that the US gov has not yet realized the full potential danger of data exposure. The best thing is to plan for these disaster scenarios like you would p

I think that the US gov has not yet realized the full potential danger of data exposure. The best thing is to plan for these disaster scenarios like you would pandemics, wars, and natural disasters. There should be strong regulations, a set of protocols, a way to mitigate these situations. Understandably, the government is way behind on this issue, still seeing the digital information (especially on social media) as secondary or less important. I think its the type of thing with banks that slowly evolved, where security got higher and higher, FDIC was established, bank vaults improved, alarming improved, money tracing was implemented. We aren't there yet for cyber crimes.

singularity2001 9y ago
I think the people have not yet realized the full potential danger of the US gov abusing our data.
- dsfyu404ed 9y ago
  The danger is basically a nonrepudiation problem. Look at all the finger pointing after Trump was elected. It was Hillary's fault. It was Bernie's fault. It was the Dem's fault. Trump was what people wanted. It was the Russians. It was Facebook. It was the MSM. All this is just for an election. Assume someone does use the massive data stores of Google or FB to do something bad. How can you even identify that that happened? How can you identify malicious actors and the incompetent ones?
  - program_whiz 9y ago
    That's sortof like in the old days when someone robbed the bank, you had no way to even identify them if they were masked. If they travelled far, you couldn't find them, no cross-state warrants. Also, they would rip off the traveling gold wagons and make off with untraceable gold they could melt and split for money. In those days, the idea of tracing or catching these criminals would have seemed nigh impossible. I'm sure with enough brain power, lost billions, corrupt elections, and casualties, we'll come up with something sooner or later to mitigate the issues.
    - dsfyu404ed 9y ago
      Learn the history of the FBI. Catching cross state criminals came with it's own set of trade-offs for society.

singularity2001 9y ago

I think the people have not yet realized the full potential danger of the US gov abusing our data.

dsfyu404ed 9y ago
The danger is basically a nonrepudiation problem. Look at all the finger pointing after Trump was elected. It was Hillary's fault. It was Bernie's fault. It was the Dem's fault. Trump was what people wanted. It was the Russians. It was Facebook. It was the MSM. All this is just for an election. Assume someone does use the massive data stores of Google or FB to do something bad. How can you even identify that that happened? How can you identify malicious actors and the incompetent ones?
- program_whiz 9y ago
  That's sortof like in the old days when someone robbed the bank, you had no way to even identify them if they were masked. If they travelled far, you couldn't find them, no cross-state warrants. Also, they would rip off the traveling gold wagons and make off with untraceable gold they could melt and split for money. In those days, the idea of tracing or catching these criminals would have seemed nigh impossible. I'm sure with enough brain power, lost billions, corrupt elections, and casualties, we'll come up with something sooner or later to mitigate the issues.
  - dsfyu404ed 9y ago
    Learn the history of the FBI. Catching cross state criminals came with it's own set of trade-offs for society.