But if the breaches are bad, the delayed discoveries are even worse.
The Solar Winds Hack was not detected for nearly 10 months. And the Wall Street Journal headline is no comfort “Hack Suggests New Scope, Sophistication for Cyberattacks
Suspected Russian hack involving SolarWinds software that compromised parts of the U.S. government was executed on a scale that has surprised even veteran security experts”.
So, now examine this urgency with the urgency of the Executive Order Rush. Seems like a disconnect.
Just look at these DuckDuckGo search results.
Did you know 4% of phone apps can turn your phone’s microphone on. Laws must be passed which more strongly and directly deal with these relative to the consumer and prohibiting such surveillance and then selling data to who knows what.
Did you catch that the government was buying personal data on individuals that was collected from private companies. Data that was probably allowed with your consent unwittingly given that was hidden in the user agreement and elsewhere?
And this is data on American citizens that could not have been obtained without a warrant directly by the government.
Yeah, I am not so concerned about climate change right now.