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> Losing a few million passwords is not. Just because you've never been adversely affected doesn't mean other people's lives aren't ruined. What about people
by katastic 9y ago
> Losing a few million passwords is not.
Just because you've never been adversely affected doesn't mean other people's lives aren't ruined.
What about people who have unsavory things leaked about them? (Gay people still in the closet from their ultra-conservative families? Religious people who leave their faith?) What about people who are blackmailed? What about women's private nude pictures? I think they care whether their accounts are compromised.
We have privacy for a reason. It's valuable. And the more we depend on the internet for our lives, placing our private actions (nudity, conversations with our closest friends and family) onto the internet, the more valuable it is to hack and breach it. The more our society values witchhunts, the more valuable it is to breach security to find new savory details to feed those witchhunts.
Imagine if you took an innocent photo of your toddler, naked, in the bathtub. And then found out it was being traded on a pedo ring. You'd feel pretty violated. And then you found out your home address and your child's school address was posted online there. You'd feel pretty scared at that point.
- blfr 9y agoThe most contrived examples you come up with are still vastly better outcomes than 150 people perishing in a plane crash. The stakes are just much, much lower.
- pfranz 9y agoWe see class actions and government intervention over things like wristbands that give a small percentage of people rashes, antennas that perform poorly if you hold your phone in a certain away, or devices that fail just out of warranty. I think the difference is they're extensions of laws for more egregious things like; things that electrocute you, things that give you cancer, or things that explode. (I'm sure another factor is that physical things have been sold for much longer than digital things) Since digital things don't have those catastrophic examples, the other violations don't have the same protections.
- manicdee 9y agoThese are real examples, and mortality is not the only risk humans wish to avoid.
- katastic 9y agoI know. Just because you're not dead, doesn't mean you're not affected in a way that matters to you.