Re: Hoping for help from politicians ...
One of the important things that people need to learn is that you cannot fix fundamental technology problems just by issuing new laws, rules, certificates and other boring paperwork.
So why should one ask politicians and civil servants who typically have rather limited insigth into the problems to produce even more laws and rules ? At best, that would lead to a false impression of improvements in security and also to more lenghty, pointless and expensive lawsuits.
Help can only come from experts and a shift in paradigm - leaving behind that currently prevailing messy IT infrastructure which is pretty unreliable and vulnerable beyond repair, and coming up with something new that has been designed for reliability and security from day one.