[ninegunpi]

1. The problem is that most population is terribly poor at defining and managing risk, by biological design and social selection - those who are good at it are usually not the best neighbors you want to have.

2. In many businesses, the actual customers are not the end-users, whose data is leaked (all the nice free services you're getting over this invisible thing called internet), they are the merchandise business is selling to somebody else (ads, etc.).

3. There are two ways of coping with this:

3.1 darwinian, where stupid users who choose to hand their data to dumb businesses all jump off the cliff holding hands

3.2 paternalistic, where we elect somebody competent to make choices for the rest of the community, which would prevent people's poor judgment to both hand data to insecure businesses and for businesses to be insecure in the first place.

4. We tried darwinian one since the day 1 in many fields. Reverting it comes at cost (antibiotics would be one good example to think of).