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We are building data breach machines and nobody cares

https://idealloc.me/posts/we-are-building-data-breach-machines-and-nobody-cares/
29•idealloc_haris•4h ago

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jeffwask•3h ago
As long as the penalties for data breach are a slap on the wrist and buying everyone one year of credit monitoring, no one will.
idealloc_haris•3h ago
I think that's definitely true to a degree, but I think the think more companies are worried about is the reputational damage from the terrible press. Look at Solarwinds (not a data breach, but similar press around it). It erased hundreds of millions in shareholder value and the company was taken private at pennies on the dollar in the aftermath. There's real risk there.
dpoloncsak•1h ago
I think it's better to compare data breaches to data breaches, like when Adobe got breached. Or Oracle. Or Rockstar.

Nothing happened in the grand-scheme of things. Even after Oracle lied and pulled some shady tactics to downplay what happened.

A few years ago Crowdstrike took down the entire set of corporate computers and everyone still uses Falcon. There is simply no accountability anymore

kjs3•22m ago
If only.

For every Solarwinds, there are hundreds of breaches that never get more that a cursory reporting (if that). And Solarwinds is still in business (and some would call "taken private at pennies on the dollar" as a feature not a bug, but I digress), as are vastly more consequential examples (Equifax, anyone?).

Yes...reputational damage is a thing, but in my experience (sitting in the decision making meetings, as a participant, many, many times in my career) it's a second-tier player at the end of the day. This is especially true of data breaches...I cannot count the number of times (in the last decade particularly) where the decision point was "What reputation damage? Everyone and their mother has had a data breach. No one cares.". I don't think they're wrong.

This, like many issues of security and risk, is the consequence of the vast majority of the customers not caring. How many users dropped Facebook in 2019, or LinkedIn in 2021 (or 2012)? How many swore off Ticketmaster? Marriott? Adobe? eBay? And that's just ungodly massive breaches. So why would the average business give a steaming crap?

In my dark little heart of hearts I sometimes think "what would it take for the average person to actually care", and then I realize what that looks like, and I don't sleep well for a couple of nights. Cheers!

fatnoah•1h ago
> As long as the penalties for data breach are a slap on the wrist and buying everyone one year of credit monitoring, no one will.

And, of course, that one year is totally useless when one is subject to multiple breaches per year. Throw in the fact that so many breaches aren't even with a company that affected individuals have a direct relationship with, and it becomes virtually impossible to fix this.

At this point, I'd be in favor of making any company that handles personal data pay in advance for the monitoring, and get refunded when they prove that that OR THEIR PROVIDERS haven't had a data breach.

bdcravens•2m ago
The real riches are in starting a credit monitoring company. Vibe coded, of course, and if you have a data breach, then it's a perpetual motion machine.
sbcorvus•1h ago
Anyone know how many data breaches occur on a monthly basis that would require credit monitoring?
vadelfe•1h ago
The Belmont analogy is great, but the deeper point is even scarier: most of the industry is giving non-deterministic systems direct access to deterministic infrastructure (databases, shells, email, etc).

Historically we spent decades reducing automation privileges and adding layers of verification. Agents seem to be reversing that trend almost overnight.

RGamma•55m ago
> Not only is this pure science fiction at this point, but injecting non-determinism into your defensive layer is terrifying and incredibly stupid. If you use an LLM to evaluate whether another LLM is doing something malicious, you now have two hallucination risks instead of one. You also risk a prompt-injection attack making it all the way to your security layer.

I've found fictional displays of "system compromise" kinda ridiculous in e.g. Halo. Now I know that Cortana throws AI slop input into AI slop infrastructure with thousands of subagents until she's in.

m3047•41m ago
Goes to a lot of trouble to build a mental model / map / landscape of how agentic ops work. Worth the read if you're looking for one, reasonable people know the map is never the terrain.
idiotsecant•9m ago
You know how in video games literally everything is super easy to hack?

Turns out all those games were just very forward-thinking.

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https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
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We are building data breach machines and nobody cares

https://idealloc.me/posts/we-are-building-data-breach-machines-and-nobody-cares/
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