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I mean, I think reality intrudes on your fanciful theory. When GSA was hacked and life-threatening personal information on security-cleared government employees

I mean, I think reality intrudes on your fanciful theory. When GSA was hacked and life-threatening personal information on security-cleared government employees was leaked, the public reaction was: eh. Compare this to Equifax, where the intrusion was less successful than at GSA, but which may nevertheless cease to exist, and whose entire leadership will likely be replaced. I think the reality is: people have seen and therefore expect government tech systems to be awful and vulnerable. And people have seen and therefore expect private tech systems to be relatively better.

WorldMaker 9y ago
I think this is more an anecdotal case of "I'm not a security-cleared government employee, so why should I care". I see as much or more of the opposite viewpoint from what you are espousing: the GSA is forced to be accountable with giant audits and meetings and red tape until the problems are found and root causes discovered and mitigations (even token mitigations) in place. Meanwhile, Equifax was hardly punished in the stock market, the one place that supposedly gets any sort of accountability out of publicly traded private corporations these days (since they only seem to care about quarterly profits rather than employees or customers or people in general). There was a lot of anecdotal resignation among my friends that no one is or can hold Equifax accountable and we'll never leave the status quo of Equifax making millions of dollars in profits warehousing data that they have no right to own.