Whose actually winning the Data Wars...
Or put another way, whose helping us lose...
Politicians and regulators are too dumb / too slow to enact change. Corporations and banks are too greedy or obsessed with the bottom line. The media is too drunk on IoT...... Its a field day for cyber-crims right now!
Last month HSBC announced biometric... The problem with that is its been given all the forethought of IoT security!!... Passwords can be reset, but biometric info can't be put back in the bottle. So why doesn’t the mass media warn of the consumer risks and mention the dangers of biometric data being leaked into the wild.... Nope, all the media had to say that day was how everyone hates passwords...
But this is irrelevant. Passwords are a necessary evil right now, everyone knows this! Besides, even when users are careful, which we know they never are, the JP-Morgan hack from a couple of years ago, proves that any database can get hit, no matter how many layers of protection it hides behind.
So what happens when all that juicy biometric info leaks online, which it will... What will the media have to say on that day...???
For me the worst offender in this weak-security / hacking / data leaking / IoT crisis, has been the media itself! Apart from the Reg and a handful of others, the media is selling is out as suckers!