The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.
What!? One of the thousands of separate and individually “secured” systems that you have to give your information to on a daily basis failed? But how could this be? Everyone knows having 1747627994 points of possible failure is the only way to ensure digital security!
What!? One of the thousands of separate and individually “secured” systems that you have to give your information to on a daily basis failed? But how could this be? Everyone knows having 1747627994 points of possible failure is the only way to ensure digital security!
Sovereign identity and Solid are the way. But governments will have to play a role in large scale implementation.
For some reason people seem to trust commercial organizations with misaligned incentives over governmental bodies.
To be fair, some people have less reason to trust their government with their data, then others.
There are varying degrees of trust in authorities in the world.
For nations with high confidence and trust in the authorities, this feels like a no-brainer.
Agreed. Although confidence and trust sometimes misalign with actual actions and results.