> “ Is it possible that one day the market for SSNs and other private data will become so saturated that exfiltrating such data becomes unprofitable?”
Not before the bevy of PII data points can be integrated into larger and larger datasets describing _individuals_.
Right now if you breach one database, you have one ‘snapshot’ of the elephant. Add more and more data, and soon you can make connections between private and public information.
What then? You could model a lot of information.
What street were you born on? First school? Early childhood friend?
Not before the bevy of PII data points can be integrated into larger and larger datasets describing _individuals_.
Right now if you breach one database, you have one ‘snapshot’ of the elephant. Add more and more data, and soon you can make connections between private and public information.
What then? You could model a lot of information.
What street were you born on? First school? Early childhood friend?
Sound familiar?