It's this kind of reaction that makes our technological toys less secure. It's this kind of reaction that the Ominous Large Corporation wants us to have. The s

It's this kind of reaction that makes our technological toys less secure. It's this kind of reaction that the Ominous Large Corporation wants us to have. The standard belief is as follows: being proactive about privacy and security costs money, and if we don't have to spend money we won't. Most people, the ones we're crowdsourcing or selling to advertisers, don't understand and won't care who actually screwed up - we'll blame the hackers and that will limit negative perceptions.