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Why single out the Chinese government? No government anywhere cares about defective software. "Engineering" is certainly not the correct term to apply to this industry.

[1] Yahoo loses all of their 3 billion account credentials https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732712/0000732712170...

[2] Equifax loses PII of 150 million Americans, including their SSNs https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/equifax-data-breach-...

[3] AT&T loses SSNs of 73 million customers https://about.att.com/story/2024/addressing-data-set-release...

[4] AT&T loses phone call/texting metadata of 110 million customers https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/0000732717240...

[5] Change Healthcare loses medical records of 200 million Americans https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/c...

To someone not drinking your nationalist kool-aid, it looks rather preposterous to make this about the Chinese bogeyman.

Yeah. I subscribe to a mailing list from a data security company that sends me a summary of breaches, daily. I know it is in their interest to keep me worried. But they aren’t making these stories up.

Yes, which is I am so bullish into having this industry getting liability like everywhere else.

Cybersecurity laws are a good start, however thanks to lobbying it will still take decades.

To be fair, in many (maybe all?) of those cases, those companies faced consequences. I highly doubt this company is going to face any consequence for this data breach.

AT&T was fined $177 million for one data breach, which represents 12 hours of revenue, and $13 million for the other, which represents 54 minutes of revenue. "Consequences". Right.

You can brush that $177M fine aside but I'm almost certain that none of the Chinese companies above with these security vulnerabilities will pay even $1 in fines.

Because they didn't cause harm to 100 million people. The headline is a blatant lie. Nobody was hacked, the reporter hired a pentester to pentest a product. Is it a good thing that it's insecure, obviously not. But obviously this is going to be a legal non-event compared to leaking PII for 100m people, regardless of nationality of companies involved, when leaking PII for 100m people is already slap-on-the-wrist territory. There are also countless insecure American hardware products on the market that also don't result in litigation because the scale is not national news-worthy.

It's only going to get so much worse. Most companies right now are dropping all the standards they still had to ship AI slop code as fast as possible.

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