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Very cool to see Troy use my suggestion: from https://www.troyhunt.com/im-testifying-in-front-of-congress-in-washington-dc-about-data-breaches-what-should-i-sa
by ndesaulniers 9y ago
Very cool to see Troy use my suggestion:
from https://www.troyhunt.com/im-testifying-in-front-of-congress-in-washington-dc-about-data-breaches-what-should-i-say/ https://www.troyhunt.com/im-testifying-in-front-of-congress-...:
"Troy, to your point "Data breaches can take years to discover," I think it's helpful to put in layman's terms that breaches are closer to making photocopies where there are now two people in possession rather than a theft where the owner is deprived of access. How do you detect that a document has been photocopied?"
In the final (this link):
"However, unlike a physical commodity, the trading of data breaches replicates the asset as each party retains their original version, just like making a perfectly reproduced photocopy."
:)
To expand on my point and
> We Often Don’t Know Until Years Later
You notice someone's stolen physical property from you, because you are deprived of it.
You don't notice someone's stolen digital property from you, because now there are more copies of it.
(maybe "stolen" and "property" aren't the correct terms to use for digital assets?)
- severine 9y ago> maybe "stolen" and "property" aren't the correct terms to use for digital assets? Indeed. See, for example, https://www.stallman.org/articles/ft-response.html https://www.stallman.org/articles/ft-response.html
- dragonwriter 9y ago> (maybe "stolen" and "property" aren't the correct terms to use for digital assets?) Stolen is rarely the right word (that is, it's possible to steal digital assets, notably if also stealing the physical medium on which they are stored, but usually the term is used in only a loosely figurative sense), but “property” is often correct; there are all kinds of nonphysical property that share important features with physical property, and there are equally important distinctions within classes of tangible property as between tangible and intangible property.