RE: Must read for everyone

["Lincoln Milner" <lmilner () hes hmc psu edu>]

I have mixed feelings about the legislation in California, designed to give the public more information about what 
threats or hacks companies are facing.  That's good news from a security standpoint, but I for one can attest to the 
fact that a number of online retailers (large and small) are doing this already, without (until now) the fear of 
legislation or prosecution.

The messages I've gotten have been from the retailer, letting me know what happened (they were cracked, and my 
information may have been compromised), and quickly followed from a message or phone call from my bank, requiring me to 
cancel and re-issue a card.  Which means the retailer not only contacted me about the problem, but also my financial 
institution.  So the market is doing a good deed, it may just need to be done on a more global scale.

I agree with Schmidt's quote on having the market drive the need for this sort of behavior.  Legislation of this type, 
in my opinion, only leads to more watching by governments, interest groups, and people looking for a way to hit the 
jackpot in a lawsuit.

Since the WWW and the larger Internet ventures are touted to be open and accessible forms of media (sans censorship and 
regulation), we should not look to legislation to force us in certain directions, but to look to one another to help 
drive trends that we, as both consumers and creators of the technology, are best capable of setting.


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