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I hate to be this way. Good! When Congress Critter's little blond granddaughter gets pwned (someone takes her identity), maybe Congress will get real serious a
by jmclnx 2y ago
I hate to be this way.
Good! When Congress Critter's little blond granddaughter gets pwned (someone takes her identity), maybe Congress will get real serious about really punishing these Companies when a breach happens.
But we know what will really happen in this scenario, the Company will get funding (bailout) from the Feds, the CEO will resign with millions of USD, the CEO will become a lobbyist.
And in reality, the granddaughter will get special treatment from the Company due to who she is.
- focusgroup0 2y ago>little blond granddaughter what does an imaginary young woman's hair color have to do with cybersecurity?
- practicemaths 2y agoSimple. American society tends to value blond white girls more. Notice you didn't question what the gender of the grandchild.
- shrubble 2y agoMaybe that occurred since the post specified “granddaughter“?
- samier-trellis 2y agoThe post also specified the hair color
- stavros 2y agoThey questioned the hair color ("why blonde") but not the gender ("why a woman").
- crtasm 2y agoSeems to be clearly questioning the entire premise to me.
- snek_case 2y agoPeople are more sensitive to the pain of others when the victim is perceived as cute. See cute animals vs not so cute animals. We're instinctively wired to think that cute means innocent, helpless and deserving of help and protection. Obviously what is considered cute is subjective and culturally influenced to some extent.
- vvpan 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
- Kon-Peki 2y ago> When Congress Critter's little blond granddaughter gets pwned (someone takes her identity), maybe Congress will get real serious LOL. Congressman Danny Davis' grandson was murdered by someone who wanted his shoes and Congress didn't even care enough to yawn.
- samier-trellis 2y agoMurder is already illegal.
- thfuran 2y agoSo is identity theft.
- jvanderbot 2y agoIdentity "theft" is corporate responsibility laundering. It is not "theft" it is "lack of safeguards on PII" plus "lack of meaningful, protected PII" combined with "A complete lack of proper vetting of loan / credit applicants" Someone put the right 10 digits into a webform? What could we do! They stole your identity! No, you just didn't want to force someone to walk into a bank to apply in person because that would cost more and reduce your new applicant rate.
- thfuran 2y agoYes, but but the fraud is still illegal.
- FriedrichN 2y agoAnd they were caught and received 30 year prison sentences. https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-sentenced-to-prison-for-murder-of-congressman-danny-davis-grandson https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-sentenced-to-prison-for-...
- jasonlotito 2y agoWhile that's true, there are two sides to crime. Prevention and Punishment. One happens before, and the other happens after. People are generally fine with punishment. The prevention part is where we disagree. This then poses the question: how many of your children are you willing to sacrifice on the alter of anti-prevention? So while a punishment might exist for something, that doesn't preclude trying to prevent the crime form occurring in the first place. This isn't easy work, and of course, it won't work 100% of the time, but it doesn't mean we stop trying to reduce the number.
- know-how 2y agoHow about we punish the bad actors and their state-sponsors?
- laweijfmvo 2y agoHow? Sanctions? War? What do you suggest?
- hnburnsy 2y agoDoesnt the US have like 17 clandestine agencies, I am sure many of which could engage in covert overseas activities that send a message to future actors about what could happen to them.
- know-how 2y agoWho said anything about war? Yes, economic sanctions. Withhold money and make markets unavailable until local law enforcement addresses it.
- gosub100 2y agoCause it worked so well in Iraq?
- imwillofficial 2y agoThis kind of racism is ok here?
- arolihas 2y agohow is this racism
- nar001 2y agoThis isn't racism
- dgfitz 2y agoSomeone mentioned a skin color, must be racist! Man, the internet sucks these days.
- RajT88 2y agoThis has been a right wing walking point for a long time (or more charitably and recently an anti-SJW talking point): Mentioning race is itself racist. I can appreciate the superficial aspect of it - if we're going to overcome racism, we should stop focusing on race. This of course is ignorant to the reality that if we stop talking about race and racism, racism will just go unchecked. Which is of course what (some/many/most?) of those people want.
- dgfitz 2y agoIt is actually even worse, I can't read. Skin color wasn't actually mentioned, just hair color. Unfortunately, I don't think we will overcome racism until everyone wants to overcome racism. More unfortunately, I don't think everyone wants to overcome racism, this seems obvious. The bigger tragedy is, trying to force-feed "don't be racist" to society just makes some people dig their heels in more, making things worse instead of better. Finally, the biggest tragedy of all is how predictable this outcome is, using force and anger as a tool to change the thoughts and actions of a person/group is generally quite ineffective.
- prmoustache 2y ago
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