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As data collection becomes more and more prevalent through devices ranging from your cell phone to your refrigerator, the need for Internet security is higher than ever. Experts meeting at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) recently spoke out about how regulations – broad and varied, coming from state, federal and foreign jurisdictions – are causing the workload of cybersecurity officials to get out of hand. At the meeting, experts could not agree on whether the forces of good are prevailing against hackers, or whether breaches are increasing or are just more public than in the past. There was a consensus, however, that recent hacking attacks coming from ideological nation states is by far a change for the worse.