The difference between data and oil is that you aren't going to drive to the oilfields one morning and find that it's all been hacked and stolen. Data is collected. Oil is sold.
> The difference between data and oil is that you aren't going to drive to the oilfields one morning and find that it's all been hacked and stolen.
Ask Western oil workers in Libya or Nigeria or Venezuela or Mexico (depending on the decade) how accurate they feel that sentence is. Oil concessions have been regularly expropriated.
I guess saying 'oil' is being a bit too specific. It is more like the 'energy' that drives the modern economy? and that is sold and you find new avenues everyday of collecting(producing) it. But yeah, it digresses a bit too much from this post I guess.
Ask Western oil workers in Libya or Nigeria or Venezuela or Mexico (depending on the decade) how accurate they feel that sentence is. Oil concessions have been regularly expropriated.