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There should be a government body to whom security breaches like these can be reported. Companies can not be trusted to police themselves when it comes to priva
by VMG 15y ago
There should be a government body to whom security breaches like these can be reported. Companies can not be trusted to police themselves when it comes to private data.
If the government is incompetent enough to prosecute you for making HTTP requests with non-obvious URLs, do you really have much hope for an smart government agency dealing with this?
- ashishgandhi 15y agoI'm in Singapore and have been brought up in India, so out of curiosity, how is the scene in the US? (Because I don't know about how things are in practice but from the outside it still looks to me as the land of the free.)
- VMG 15y agoI wouldn't know, I'm from Germany. But personally, I'm scared of a German government agency defining and deciding web-app security.
- Xylakant 15y agoActually, the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) may not be high-profile but seems in general reasonably knowledgeable and neutral. But I guess in Germany you'd report such a failure via the CCC or a similar organization.