It Appears China Is Building a Massive Espionage Database on America

End passwords and the practice of email as an authoritative control.

I’m thinking single purpose password token systems. Email just needs to be replaced by an entirely new, engineered for authority and privacy* from the grounds up communication protocol.

Edit-Also, a democratically managed whitelisting system. Something that home routers could use as a source of authority on classifications of IPs. Ie literally no way to masquerade a darknet resource as a whitelisted resource.

Edit two: added privacy to email replacement.

>what paradigm shift needs to happen before breaches stop being depressingly common,

Reduce the value of a breach.

That is to say: minimize the records kept, minimize the amount of correlation that can be done between multiple sets of records (both internally and across multiple parties), minimize the damage a user can do to themselves or others at every single level of authorization.

>and why isn't that shift happening?

A subject's anonymity and independence are all antithetical to the system's profitability (and often to ease of development).

Finally: no one can steal surveillance records that don't exist. Maybe we think about ending the ubiquitous surveillance of the US population?

You have to either make the benefit too low, or the cost too high of doing the attacks.

And I don't think we're close to doing either in the case of China.

Really simple, there needs to be a cold war-mentality cultural shift in America. People need to ostracize their friends who are pro-China, and politicians need to know that they have the unanimous support of the people before we begin to defend and reorient ourselves (certainly on many different levels). Unfortunately, a fair amount of businessmen and a handful of billionaires have business interests in China (while our middle class has a knife twisted into its back), and push pro-China anti-trade war propaganda through the various media outlets that they own, like WaP, NYT, Economist, Financial Times, and so many reasonably intelligent people are deceived into believing that is a fallacy to oppose China, blasting you with sophistic comparisons like the Thucydides Trap. Also, in 2018, we had the unfortunate problem of the Democrats rabidly opposing the trade war, because they believed it to be of their advantage to make Trump look like a fool for engaging in it and against China, while informing people that Russia is the true enemy and that Trump is complicit with them. However, now that the election is over, I think that will die down and their will be bipartisan action. If and only when the people are united against China will there be a stand, although that may not come to pass until things are too late - our culture is more interested in noble virtue signaling and Marvel movies

Framing people? Please!

DNA = targeted biological weapons

Let that sink in.