"It will be a long, long time before the marketplace evolves sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned/possibly-state-sponsored malici

"It will be a long, long time before the marketplace evolves sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned/possibly-state-sponsored malicious actors operating with impunity in a lawless environment." Only because we, as a society, have decided that we don't care about information security, to the extent that we protect incompetent, ignorant, or uncaring individuals and organizations from any liability for their actions. How much better off would we be if we had fined Experian $1M for every user account they lost? Or for any of the other breaches in the preceding decades? How much more careful would your average bootcamp grad be writing the code that forms attack surfaces if they had to pay liability insurance? By and large, we have had a good idea how to make technological measures much more resistant to attack since the '80s. It's always been considered too difficult and too expensive, something we have put exactly no resources towards fixing. Ten years of a quarter of the collective budget we spend on using ML to violate privacy would probably take everyone except state sanctioned actors out of the picture. (All numbers pulled out of my flying monkeys.)