That is why I wrote "the employees may care" and NOT "Trump may care"...

The way to do this is to finally start taking IT security seriously. The EU has started with the CRA and the GDPR (and to a lesser degree the DSA). The US seems to be moving backwards at the moment.

But this is the only way. When a bridge or a building collapses, they find who screwed up and that has real, sometimes personal consequences. If Azure gets hacked or is completely open to attackers (again), nothing happens to anybody. That has to stop.

Did get pirates handed anyways, maybe a bit more quietly.

The employees may care if they basically cannot travel internationally anymore. If they are smart enough to understand they have no protection against the law abroad.

Also note that when (not if) they hack the wrong target, these people become criminals. That is a primary reason why warfare and offensive intelligence operations never get handed to the private sector.

Obviously, "Hacking back" is abysmally stupid as well, because everybody uses hacked machines belonging to other people as proxies, often long chains of them. Hence it is pretty much impossible to not do massive collateral damage. And as to the changes of success? Well. How many of these attackers have been identified so far and how many are in prison? Wight, basically a tiny number. Because this approach does not work.

You are a dumb American that thinks everybody is always after money. NO. European privacy laws are something you are probably completely unfamiliar with: Laws that protect citizens. The financial penalties are not a revenue mechanism.

Isn't that their target demographic?

Great... now explain to me why I keep getting ads for women's loungerie, when I'm a 65 year old man...

Hidden recording and then posting that on social media without consent can land you in prison in Germany. Now, component (!) sales are legal, but making a "covert surveillance device" is not. Even possession is illegal.

Actually, the next frontier in ad targetting is eye tracking. Guess what all the VR goggles do now?

I always wondered what Nuerolink was for...

I think I will pass.

Troll? Really?!? See the "Factory Model School" article on Wikipedia. I'm not the first person to suggest that's what our schools were designed for.

The education at Stanford is no better than most colleges. The real value of a Stanford education is who you meet while going to school there, many of them will go on to found startups. Sand Hill Road venture capitalists are located literally across the street from Stanford!

Rich kid schools? Ironically, Caitlin Gable, the $30/k year school for rich kids in Portland, was the school that had all the kids with head lice... because their families could afford to vacation in remote places where head lice were prevalent.