Nothing’s going to happen. Millions of federal employees, including many in highly sensitive positions, had their entire lives hacked open by a hostile power, and basically nobody cares. There’s been minimal outrage, minimal accountability, minimal disclosure of what happened, minimal disclosure as to who did it, and no attempt to discuss any possible response.
It’s been years, and we still know nothing about the Sony hack. We don’t know who hacked Target, but that hasn’t stopped people from shopping there. No one really cares about hacking.
Money as well. Some companies just don’t want to spend the money it would take to be as secure as possible while still being connected to the internet.
Why don’t you read one sentence prior to the one you quoted?
Obviously, if your gun permit status is publicly available information, then you have no expectation of privacy. Maybe you think that shouldn’t be publicly available, but it is currently.
There is no comparison–a perfectly legal information request for public information versus a hacking of private information. It was stupid to bring it up.
But thanks for your permission to have “fun” getting upset about this.
I thought the “social justice warriors” were the kids on Tumblr who get off on being offended by everything ever done and said by straight, white males and seriously say thing like, “I am being repressed by the cisheteropatriarchy! Check your privilege!” Pretty much the exact opposite of what the people in that article stand for.
Obviously I don’t know for certain that something will happen, and I certainly hope that you’re right, but your examples hardly prove that. There are some very scary people in the anti-choice movement. Ask Dr. Tiller’s family. Ask the people who’s clinics have been bombed.
No one seriously expects China to bomb or use snipers against federal employees. That was a case of intelligence gathering. I’m not minimizing it, it was a serious breach, but the information hasn’t been released publicly for any random nut to access.
I know of no radical violent movement targeted at Sony or Target customers, but identity theft or credit card abuse is certainly a possibility in those cases. Just because we haven’t heard of it yet doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. In any case, like the government hack, the information hasn’t been published publicly for any random nut to access.
Your last statement, “No one really cares about hacking” is incorrect and irrelevant to this issue.
I meant that no one in authority will do anything about the hack, and that’s what my examples were meant to indicate.
The lives of covert operatives are very much in jeopardy, and any number of federal employees are now subject not just to identity theft but to blackmail based on the contents of their security clearance files. And we have been told nothing about who took the data, let alone who they might have released it to. And yet this came and went in a news cycle, with essentially no outrage anywhere.
OPM has set up their own identity protection service and blackmail attempts would be pointless. In order to obtain a security clearance, one has to specify anything that could potentially be used for blackmail.