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Chinese talking cybersecurity means security is already lost
Does this mean that privacy no longer exists?
Remember how this story unfolded? There had been a hack and some records were compromised. Then there had been a hack and hundreds of thousands of records were compromised. Rinse-repeat almost ad infinitum until now we know that 56 million fingerprint records were lost.
I think it is safe to assume at this point that all records held by the Office of Personnel Management have been accessed and copied by the bad guys. It went undetected for months, they had high-bandwidth access, so whatever secrets there were in those records, background checks, security clearances, etean that privacyc., are now probably for sale.
Or are they? It turns out there are far worse things that could be done with the records ... .
I think it is safe to assume at this point that all records held by the Office of Personnel Management have been accessed and copied by the bad guys. It went undetected for months, they had high-bandwidth access, so whatever secrets there were in those records, background checks, security clearances, etean that privacyc., are now probably for sale.
Or are they? It turns out there are far worse things that could be done with the records ... .
http://www.cringely.com/2015/09/25/chinese-talking-cybersecurity-means-security-is-already-lost/