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>This public-private effort aims to put in place minimum cybersecurity Nice, we do not what the CEOs of these telcos have to give up their bonuses. So we forc

• votepaunchy 2y ago
  Minimum is not “bare minimum”. The alternative to minimum requirements is no requirements.
  • gertop 2y ago
    Not allowing foreign entities to spy on their customers feels like the bare minimum to me.
• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > So we force them to do the just bare minimum. Isn't capitalism great This has nothing to do with capitalism. The Soviet Union wasn’t a paragon of information security.
  • lenerdenator 2y ago
    It does, at least with respect to how the US does capitalism. The goal is to make the number at the bottom of the piece of paper bigger by a large enough margin in the next ninety days. If you can prove that there's the imminent risk of a specific cyberattack in the next 90 days and that it will have an adverse impact on getting that number bigger, fine, company leadership will pay attention, but that's rarely the case. Most cyberattacks are obviously clandestine in nature, and by the time they're found, the move isn't to harden infrastructure against known unknowns, but to reduce legal exposure and financial liability for leaving infrastructure unsecured. It's cheaper, and makes the number at the bottom of the piece of paper bigger.
    • gruez 2y ago
      >The goal is to make the number at the bottom of the piece of paper bigger by a large enough margin in the next ninety days. If you can prove that there's the imminent risk of a specific cyberattack in the next 90 days and that it will have an adverse impact on getting that number bigger, fine, company leadership will pay attention, but that's rarely the case. 1. Capitalists seem pretty content with money losing ventures for far more than "the next ninety days", as long as they think it'll bring them future profits. Amazon and Uber are famous examples. 2. You think the government (or whatever the capitalism alternative is) aren't under the same pressure? Unless we live in a post scarcity economy, there's always going to be a beancounter looking at the balance sheet and scrutinizing expenses.
  • keybored 2y ago
    I’m pretty sure that the Soviet Union was state capitalist.
    • gruez 2y ago
      "true communism has never been tried"
      • keybored 2y ago
        My guy/gal, state capitalism as a transition towards socialism and then to communism was an explicit Marxist policy by the Soviet Union. Hence that state (of state capitalism) was a part of the big-C Communism of the Soviet Union. Sometimes thought-terminating quips are not enough.
      • immibis 2y ago
        Well it hasn't. No one knows exactly what communism is, but they're pretty sure it's not a dictatorship.