Here's a mobile-readable copy of that comment... An omnious quote from an article on l0phet: > Wysopal offered this grim precedent: Cities were once vulnerabl

Here's a mobile-readable copy of that comment... An omnious quote from an article on l0phet: > Wysopal offered this grim precedent: Cities were once vulnerable to disastrous fires, which raged through dense clusters of mostly wooden buildings. It took a giant fire in Chicago to spur government officials into serious reforms, including limits on new wooden structures, a more robust water supply for suppressing blazes and an overhaul to the city’s fire department. > “The market didn’t solve the problem of cities burning down,” Wysopal said, predicting that Internet security may require a historic disaster to force change. “It seems to me that the market isn’t really going to solve this one on its own.” > But here’s a frightening fact: The push to create tough new fire-safety standards did not start after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, which killed hundreds of people and left 100,000 homeless. It took a second fire, nearly three years later in 1874, to get officials in Chicago to finally make real changes. [via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9760164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9760164]