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Comment by nceqs3 | Hacker News Reader

If you think Equifax had bad cybersecurity, imagine a government run one.

Not everything government run is automatically worse. For a private company that is seemingly immune to bad PR over repeated full data breaches, security and security by design are costs. There are many private firms that should have an army of IT sec-ops, but instead have zero or close to it.

Meanwhile, government IT tends to be the bottom of the barrel. Though, many government contracted sites are just fine.

Overall, the incentives are not quite aligned for security and a company that does not have to care.

Do you think the NSA is bad at Cybersecurity? If so, what makes you think so? If not, do you think the NSA is a private entity?

Do you think the government is going to bring NSA level security to the table? Probably not.

And need I remind you that the NSA had millions of sensitive recirds stolen by a single IT tech?

So no, actually, the NSA's security apparently isn't that great

> Do you think the government is going to bring NSA level security to the table? Probably not.

The argument I was opposing is 'the government can't do anything right compared to the private sector', not 'we need an NSA apparatus to secure our credit scores'.

> And need I remind you that the NSA had millions of sensitive recirds stolen by a single IT tech?

Which private company is immune to whistleblowers?

> And need I remind you that the NSA had millions of sensitive recirds stolen by a single IT tech?

Are you talking about the contractor? Who worked for a private business?

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