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s/PayPal/the entire bloody financial industry/g They've decided it's pretty much always better to close the barn doors after the cows leave. Card fraud proble
by hakfoo 4y ago
s/PayPal/the entire bloody financial industry/g
They've decided it's pretty much always better to close the barn doors after the cows leave.
Card fraud problems? Just promise people 'zero liability' rather than some sort of security paradigm stronger than "we told everyone they're not allowed to store the CVV."
Everything identity-theft related? Why bother actually engineering some sort of secure 21st-century authentication systems when you can just pay for a few months of credit monitoring after the inevitable data breach and class action suit.
I wonder if it would be possible to create a more proactive liability framework. Maybe stockholders would be a party with standing-- if you're still doing $known_stupid_thing years after alternatives have been documented, you're failing your fiduciary duty to investors, just waiting for an avoidable damage to the stock price to happen.