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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 00:36:02 JST Lauren Weinstein

   Proposal: Big Tech execs must serve significant prison time (e.g., a year or more) for significant data breaches caused by negligence affecting more than one million people. Committee of security experts will determine whether or not any given breach fits within these parameters. Stop laughing off these endless breaches that could have been easily prevented. Nothing but prison will get their attention -- fines roll off their backs.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 00:36:15 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     @escarpment Let's do the experiment for 10 years and find out.

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 00:36:16 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     @escarpment Double the time in prison for each additional breach. Should work great.

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     Escarpment (escarpment@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 00:36:16 JST Escarpment

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     @lauren What if you plot the prison time against breaches and you determine there is 0 correlation- that they are completely independent variables.

     What I'm getting at is "the problem of punishment"- that you see some outcome, 1, which you want to be 0 (no breaches). To attempt to coax that variable back to 0, you introduce some independent variable, punishment. It has no effect on the outcome, but now you have breaches *and* people in jail.

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     Escarpment (escarpment@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 00:36:17 JST Escarpment

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     @lauren What if you give the prison time and the breaches keep happening?