Originally Posted by
The Nr Fairy
@etudiant - not entirely sure hat you're getting at here.
Massive data bases and services spread across thousands of entities, with very uneven maintenance practices, are not easy to keep secure.
Making the accumulation bigger simply reduces security even further.
But the core idea is that secrecy is very short lived, stuff leaks no matter how hard one tries hard to prevent it, whether the A bomb, or the SOSUS or the Keyhole spy satellites or whatever.
Our policies and procedures should be set accordingly.