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Calif. Attorney General: We Need To Crack Down On Companies That Don't Encrypt

Posted by Soulskill on from the making-it-more-painful-to-be-bad-at-security dept.

tsamsoniw writes "California Attorney Kamala Harris says her office will start cracking down on companies in the Golden State that don't encrypt customer data and fall victim to data breaches; she's also calling on the state to pass a law requiring companies to use encryption. That's just one of the recommendations in the state's newly released data breach report, which says 131 companies in California suffered data breaches in 2012, affecting 2.5 million residents."

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  1. wait by Yaur · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have reached the point in time where attorneys general have realized that companies need to encrypt customer data? Either that happened faster than I expected or I'm getting old faster than I realized.

  2. Re:NSA by tajribah · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is "as bad as no encryption" a reason for yelling on the user and presenting it like the worst security problem ever? Even if I accept the premise that it is as bad as no encryption, the obvious conclusion is that the browser should present it the same as no encryption.

    Actually, it is not as bad. It still keeps you safe from passive attacks (like your ISP collecting all data for a three-letter agency, which analyses them later).