<story><title>Coding Flaw Exposes Voter Details for 6.5M Israelis</title><url>https://www.databreachtoday.asia/coding-flaw-exposes-voter-details-for-65-million-israelis-a-13708</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tcd</author><text>I often wonder if we, as humans during this era, are really at the primitive end of the introduction of computers and big data.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re still incredibly new to the concept of storing PB&amp;#x27;s of easily searchable and accessible data, and can be accessed at the speed of light.&lt;p&gt;At the same time, exposing this can do real human harm, depending on the motives (for example, Cambridge Analytica).&lt;p&gt;I wonder what the next 100, 500 years will look like, after all this has &amp;#x27;settled&amp;#x27; down.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re seeing this today with facial recognition and machine learning - new concepts today that will grow old with time.&lt;p&gt;I wish I was capable of seeing all of this &amp;#x27;big tech&amp;#x27; in that time to see how it matures. To say we have a long way to go is an understatement.&lt;p&gt;Breaches like this should be &lt;i&gt;impossible&lt;/i&gt; as there should be designs against it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vincentmarle</author><text>&amp;gt; I wonder what the next 100, 500 years will look like, after all this has &amp;#x27;settled&amp;#x27; down.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Breaches like this should be impossible as there should be designs against it.&lt;p&gt;I see it the other way around. Privacy is equal to security, it is only as strong as its weakest link, and there are many many “links” (attack vectors) and the amount of data you can breach with asymmetric attacks is unprecedented. By way of ergodicity, everything’s going to be leaked eventually, no matter how good our intentions are to protect it.&lt;p&gt;If you take everything to its logical conclusion, it is &lt;i&gt;inevitable&lt;/i&gt; that the concept of privacy is going to be absolutely destroyed in the future, and everyone will know everything about everyone at all times. The latest privacy laws are futile attempts to put the finger in the dike before it explodes; too little, too late.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coding Flaw Exposes Voter Details for 6.5M Israelis</title><url>https://www.databreachtoday.asia/coding-flaw-exposes-voter-details-for-65-million-israelis-a-13708</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tcd</author><text>I often wonder if we, as humans during this era, are really at the primitive end of the introduction of computers and big data.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re still incredibly new to the concept of storing PB&amp;#x27;s of easily searchable and accessible data, and can be accessed at the speed of light.&lt;p&gt;At the same time, exposing this can do real human harm, depending on the motives (for example, Cambridge Analytica).&lt;p&gt;I wonder what the next 100, 500 years will look like, after all this has &amp;#x27;settled&amp;#x27; down.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re seeing this today with facial recognition and machine learning - new concepts today that will grow old with time.&lt;p&gt;I wish I was capable of seeing all of this &amp;#x27;big tech&amp;#x27; in that time to see how it matures. To say we have a long way to go is an understatement.&lt;p&gt;Breaches like this should be &lt;i&gt;impossible&lt;/i&gt; as there should be designs against it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhizome</author><text>Yes, we are at the primitive end of history, even the first transistor is still within living memory. What these breaches do is normalize the loss of privacy, the protection of which eats into the profits that fuel the growth of the companies that collect it, and threaten their foundational roles in this early history. That this is early in the game is also why protective laws need to be passed for people to retain the power over their own information. Data is not as cheap as the law treats it, Google makes almost $100MM every week.&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, how much time do these breaches steal in lost productivity, or in diminished free time, for all of us? Quite a bit, but the only time you hear about that metric is when management is complaining about employees talking to each other in the hallway.&lt;p&gt;Protections not established early become harder to impose later, which is why the companies and lawmakers to which they donate downplay the severity of these breaches via pittances of penalties, 30min of revenues or something. Fines should be $1000 per individual exfiltrated, or a year of revenues (at last year&amp;#x27;s number), or other figure that would be actually effective...and with strict liability.</text></comment>