> But the slick exterior concealed deep vulnerabilities. Mikael Koivukangas, head of R&D at a Finnish medtech firm called Onesys Medical, points out that Vastaamo’s system violated one of the “first principles of cybersecurity”: It didn’t anonymize the records. It didn’t even encrypt them. The only thing protecting patients’ confessions and confidences were a couple of firewalls and a server login screen. Anyone with experience in the field, Koivukangas says, could’ve helped Vastaamo design a safer system.
Disappointing, but I'm not surprised.
Certain leaks cannot be undone and can continue to have consequences for the victims.
Meanwhile, we're less than a decade away from AR glasses being commonplace (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32405565)
Storage continues to get cheaper, devices smaller and faster - more capable of facial recognition.
Already, if a person has the motivation and tech aptitude, they can torrent or buy TBs of private records, and cobble together a script to identify passers-by and display a report of their leaked, private details.
We are speeding toward a gargantuan privacy train-wreck.
Rogerian version: https://locserendipity.com/Rogerian.html
If everyone's dirt is public, indeed that may lessen the stigma of common mistakes: an embarrassing slip of the tongue, tripping over one's shoe laces, etc.
But different people have very different liabilities. Alice's 2009 misdiagnosis of AIDS does not cancel out Bob's 2015 false accusation of murder. Alice will still have trouble on dating apps (because strangers suspect she has AIDS). Bob will still have trouble finding employment (because strangers suspect he is a killer).
The closest to 'no one actually being dirty' it could be is if we just stop caring when tech unfairly destroys a person's life.
