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Orrex

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7. I have previously proposed a solution that is 100% guaranteed to work

Reply to Tactical Peek (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 01:51 PM

Dec 2017

When a data breach occurs, the entity responsible for maintaining the security of that data is to be fined $100,000 per person affected.

Make them financially accountable for the amount of fuckery to which they expose innocent citizens, and then watch them solve these problems overnight.

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120 million households exposed in massive database leak [View all] Tactical Peek Dec 2017 OP

Congress will take action to address this problem dalton99a Dec 2017 #1

Yep, congress will look into it to see if they can scrape off some money somehow for themselves. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #2

and then they'll give themselves a raise for a job well done. Eyeball_Kid Dec 2017 #12

And the idiot factor of America, which is quite large, will vote them all back in. It sucks!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #14

Sure, when someone sorts the data by occupation and pulls up Congresscritters' data... Hekate Dec 2017 #3

When does it end?? Clarity2 Dec 2017 #4

Nahh, they were just giving it to RT analytics..... getagrip_already Dec 2017 #5

Yep Clarity2 Dec 2017 #6

I have previously proposed a solution that is 100% guaranteed to work Orrex Dec 2017 #7

Researcher here...and I got some bad news.... mentalslavery Dec 2017 #8

We're all screwed nine ways to Sunday FakeNoose Dec 2017 #11

In other words, all of them. sandensea Dec 2017 #9

Why would any company pay $38K for this data? FakeNoose Dec 2017 #10

As Bartcop would say, if a "mistake" becomes profitable to the ones causing it, Wednesdays Dec 2017 #13

A boon for credit report monitoring services. BadgerKid Dec 2017 #16

Too bad tRump's tax returns aren't exposed!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #15