If you are a large country like the US. You don’t need to intervene manually in millions of online businesses. On a policy-level you need to setup legal liability for people who are uses practices that put users at risk.
Equifax should be liable in a way that bankrupts the company for what they did.
As a result of Julia Reda’s work the EU recently decided to pay for bug bounties for important open source projects that are used a lot in it’s infrastructure.
We should move to a world where we don’t have bufferoverflows due to the problems of C and use more safe language like Rust for the lower part of our techstack.
To the extend we have dependencies that are twenty year old vulnerable C code the government should take a few billion into it’s hand to get them rewritten in Rust when it’s widely used open-source code or force companies through liability for breaches to rewrite their own closed source stuff.
If you are a large country like the US. You don’t need to intervene manually in millions of online businesses. On a policy-level you need to setup legal liability for people who are uses practices that put users at risk.
Equifax should be liable in a way that bankrupts the company for what they did.
As a result of Julia Reda’s work the EU recently decided to pay for bug bounties for important open source projects that are used a lot in it’s infrastructure.
We should move to a world where we don’t have bufferoverflows due to the problems of C and use more safe language like Rust for the lower part of our techstack.
To the extend we have dependencies that are twenty year old vulnerable C code the government should take a few billion into it’s hand to get them rewritten in Rust when it’s widely used open-source code or force companies through liability for breaches to rewrite their own closed source stuff.