Even with extensive portability across UNIXes, any responsible company should quality-test on all of the platforms they claim to support. That does require considerable resources and time.

Those cardboard things you see in museums?

I don't understand why firms involved in such leaks aren't held responsible and severely punished either by regulators or class action suits. If they were punished with a $100 payment to each affected consumer, possibly causing their bankruptcy, they would serve as alarming examples of how companies should guard data.

For get everything else. Phase in steep Carbon Tax. That will: * Reduce emissions. * Motivate purchase of high MPG vehicles. * More bicycling. * No traffic jams. * Fewer car accidents. * People will carpool. * Workers will move closer to work. * Workers will find work closer to home. * Workers will telecommute. * Green industries will blossom. * We will stave off global warming. * Can eliminate income tax on middle class. Revenue neutrality. * More $ to fund public transit. * Less lung cancers.