[samfriedman]

I agree: I think we have been blessed with a long period of innocence concerning the security of our services and devices. A period that is now coming to an end with increased attacks by increasingly powerful entities.

The dot-com-bubble showed us that businesses should not be valued simply because they leverage hot new technology (hold your AI comparisons...). These high-profile hacks and security failures will hopefully show us that businesses should not be considered secure simply because they stack up to other measures of value.

I would hope that in the future, a fault in a company's infrastructure security is considered as seriously as a fault in its core business model.