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Nearly 200K of highly sensitive medical information belonging to US military veterans was exposed online and showed evidence of a ransomware attack

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Ha, mine got exposed a couple years ago (local office let a contractor load thousands of them on a thumb drive and leave, ended up online). They signed me up for "ID.me" for 3 years to protect me from identity theft.

ID.me is basically a glorified coupon/advertisement delivery platform targeting veterans, which sells itself as identity protection with perks. Then, ID.me got hacked, and all of my info I'd given them to prove my identity got shared with the goat. I got this sweet apology letter though.

So moral? They don't give a fuck. No one is held responsible. The general feeling is that "this kinda stuff just happens" and it's not really their fault. I'd love to see large numbers of people go to jail over this...

And not a single fuck was given...

I think I should run for Congress with a single policy... you screw up data storage, your company is "executed" (nationalized)

It would happen pretty quickly, based on how these cyberattacks are going. Also, Russia would like it.

The tip of the iceberg has not even been identified with the recent US SolarWinds cyber attack.

Then again, nationalizing care would bring up the standard. Not like I trust the US government, however, the third leading cause of death is believed to be preventable medical errors. The level of care is particularly poor and inconsistent outside of the east and west coasts, with a few notable areas as exceptions geographically. As a chronically ill individual with 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, it's not like I trust the system. I basically fell through the cracks, over and over again.

Nationalizing care would not bring up the standard. It didn't with the OPM Database.

(And given that the ultimate has already happened, what are you going to do? Nationalize the CIA? Then nationalize it again with the next breach?)

"The Central Intelligence Agency, however, does not use the OPM system; therefore, it may not have been affected"

Why? because nationalized organisations never get hacked?

Because putting the fear of god into people often works, especially when it cuts into the gravy train.

So if a companies finances get leaked you’d nationalize them?

A company's finances is their own data, so they haven't harmed anyone else by leaking it. A company leaking your finances, is, or perhaps should be a crime by negligence.

Would lead to better price discovery for the 5th amendment’s equivalent exchange requirements

While you're there, can you also ban the exchange of crypto for fiat in the USA? This will have a huge positive effect on carbon emissions, chip shortages, and actually reducing ransomware.

> ban the exchange of crypto for fiat in the USA? This will have a huge positive effect on carbon emissions, chip shortages, and actually reducing ransomware.

Makes sense, we did it with drugs and there's no more drugs.

Drugs are not a unit of exchange that rely on markets, they are consumables.

A better comparison would be online gambling - which has been banned effectively in the US.

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