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More => Music, Movies, Politics, and Other Cheap Thrills => Topic started by: JimH on August 24, 2015, 12:55:54 pm

Title: FCC and Cybersecurity
Post by: JimH on August 24, 2015, 12:55:54 pm

This is an important change:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N10Z11320150824

Title: Re: FCC and Cybersecurity
Post by: KingSparta on August 24, 2015, 07:49:19 pm

I wonder if they were using any or low security at the time.

Consumers deserve to have some protection, I'm just not sure you can ever protect against the dedicated hacker.

Title: Re: FCC and Cybersecurity
Post by: gvanbrunt on August 25, 2015, 07:10:12 am

Actually I believe most companies could easily improve their security to protect consumers. Encrypting consumer data with individual salted hashes would be a start. Include a hardware decryptor and monitor the throughput at that point. That would prevent anyone from stealing a database and publishing the content worldwide. They might be able to steal a few, but certainly not millions of peoples private information. You may not be able to prevent the dedicated hacker, but you certainly can mitigate the damage.

In the Canada (and I would think the US) there is legislation in which consumers have a right to have their private data protected. Frankly I'm surprised that none of these companies have had fines levied against them in addition to the cost of the breach. I would bet that they will happen soon and if not laws will be passed that add some teeth to the provisions that are already in place.