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Ah yes the equifax hack

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/equifax-cyberatt...

OPM Hack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

The only way to create software engineering reform you envision is to force a paradigm shift. The only thing that could instigate it would be like skynet with many dead. Though, the unknown damage from OPM could be quite severe.

There might be 'security standards' but neither the government nor private sector can guarantee anything to be safe. The civilization built on IT networks will need to be rewowrked.




Did you not notice that I referenced the Equifax hack?


How many were killed as a consequence of the Equifax hack?

Don't get me wrong, that hack was absolutely massive and terrible, but I think you missed the point of what the parent comment was saying.

Their point was that it must be something real and visceral, on a level that will make people think "something like this must never happen again at any cost". As far as I know, there weren't massive killings of people due to the equifax hack, so that isn't quite on the same level.


The parent edited their comment after I commented.

It originally said

>Did you not remember the Equifax hack?

Of course I didn’t remember it. I explicitly mentioned it as something that didn’t qualify as an Quebec Bridge collapse level event.

They editing to make it seem like they realized that I mentioned it all along.

To your point

>it must be something real and visceral.

I agree that was exactly what I was saying when I started this thread.




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