• Chronicon [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    you know, I need to bookmark this for whenever people tell me that big tech has basically unassailable security

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      And I wonder what would happen if this plaintext stuff was discovered in the US by the federal government. Maybe the agency in charge would send them a strongly worded letter.

      • Chronicon [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        the dataset would be quietly stashed in an NSA datacenter along with everything else on facebook

      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month ago

        Not to defend the US, god knows we love to lick corporate boots, but if Meta were an Irish company then Ireland would probably lick their boots as well. Or if Meta were a German company then the US would gladly sue them. Just look at how Volkswagen was singled out by the US despite all US automakers falsifying emissions and crash safety data for decades.

      • Chronicon [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        Oh don't worry I didn't actually bookmark it I'm just going to post on here asking for the link next time I need it, like a true zoomer

    • Barx [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      There's a mountain of security researchers out there ensuring that the best encryption is theoretically uncrackble, building entire careers around just the math involved, and every major tech company throws it in the trash through disorganization and greed by just giving people raw DB access, keeping copies of passwords for a "demo" that reaches production, or pissing off the most powerful engineer in the deoartment.

  • miz [any, any]
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    2 months ago

    sure is weird how fb accounts get hacked so often, oh well probably the user's fault! clueless

  • KoboldKomrade [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Move the decimal point a few to the right and maybe that'll be an actual punishment.