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What regulation are you proposing? Forcing all computers to be locked down so hard that users can't install malware?


We would have to go outside to find dopamine. It wouldn't be safe. People would die.

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I remember thinking in the 90's that it was weird as hell that the operating system sits in the same folder tree as the users documents, applications live there too! What a concept? Like keeping your socks in the same drawer as your bills and plumbing tools. Spare tire in the kitchen. Lawn mower under the bed.


Maybe we can start with heavy penalties for whoever responsible for these breaches? The users are irresponsible, but at the higher levels, the company can afford to tighten access and guard their data better.

Would these companies leak their own business critical documents? No. So why can't they be forced to treat sensitive customer's data the same way?


This is not data leaked by businesses. The businesses were also not breached.

The data was stolen from the users' computers, by malware installed by the users themselves.




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