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by jmward01 361 days ago
Our digital identities have become more valuable than most physical property but I still don't see society taking it seriously. People like my grandmother constantly shedding information to any pop-up that comes her way. Our governments not prioritizing this threat as a true top priority and properly funding it and taking action on it. (911 for digital crime maybe?) People not seeing others and properly shaming them and turning them in for digital crime like we would do if we saw property crime, etc etc. The scale of something like this is absurd, even if it is a lot of re-packaged data. The amount of time people will be dealing with the fall-out from just this one incident can likely be measured in thousands of people years. Or, put another way, this is on par with the impact of mass murder in term of lives altered. As a society we really need to make changes in our laws and behavior to really internalize how massive a problem this is before we can even start to address it.