Why anyone would have an active account on any service run by Zuckerberg is beyond me at this point. Assume everything you have on a Zuckerberg run service is out there because ... well ...it is.
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Not by a long shot, because then comes the business of analysing the data and selling the insights, which they do already but it would just be on a whole new (and scary) level.
FB is the joke that keeps giving. Whatever they get their claws on turns to crap.
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This is just the first update. The next update adds a 0 to that number. Everyone should put the following words under their name on their Insta page: It’s all yours. Take it and enjoy (even what the public doesn’t see).
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Someone's Proform treadmill was probably hacked, it harvested their account info sitting on the WiFi net and boom. Done. Not kidding, that is what is going on right now, active attacks through the most "innocent" IoT garbage and NOBODY is paying attention to their networks.
This will keep happening until security is more than a word.
If privacy is caring about Google collecting my web searches, I don't care about privacy. I'd rather not have to pay the apple tax for that small unimportant privacy everyone is worried about.
Why throw google into the mix? I wouldn’t put google and Facebook in the same sentence personally.
You can add "apple goto fail" security bug, MacOS blank root password, and the homekit remote vulnerability.
It's funny how this just happened now. I just registered for an Instagram account last week after all this time avoiding it on purpose as well as Twitter only to find out that my email address was used by someone in Russia to sell fake Chinese knockoff goods online without me even knowing. So I got the account back, but all messages from Instagram to me are in Russian, so I'm at a loss for what to do now. Everything I click on comes up in Russian. Like I even care, I'll delete the account if I can find a way to do that. On a computer is apparently not one of the options.
GOOD JOB Mark Zuckerberg! He should win the Tim Cook Award for Wireless Charging Advances!
PS: Yes, it's an email address also used for Facebook, in case someone was wondering.
GOOD JOB Mark Zuckerberg! He should win the Tim Cook Award for Wireless Charging Advances!
PS: Yes, it's an email address also used for Facebook, in case someone was wondering.
I had an old FB account I set up for my gaming support (back when mafia and farm game were the rage)..... never really did anything with it.... a few months ago I remembered it and went back to sign on only to find my name was now Joni Ekosaputra and I apparently live in Indonesia. I have no friends but get a TON of friend requests and suggestions LoL! Luckily I didn't link any personal info but I just found it funny. FB has always been a leaky bucket as far as privacy goes.... I'd be willing to bet a HUGE government intervention is on it's way for FB..... which they need even though I have a great distaste for anything having to do with government intrusion in daily life. Why should anyone in FB give a damn.... they have their millions/billions.
This wasn't Facebook's doing, at least not directly. Facebook themselves is asking where the data came from.
This wasn't even 1-factor authentication. No password was required at all. It was a public database. Serious ineptness on the part of whomever uploaded it.
Google is doing far more than collecting web searches. They are following all your moves on the internet via dozens of sites/apps/APIs, with or without you using their products. They are mining that data and combining it with public and purchased data sets, and using algorithms to assess you, rate you, and predict what you desire, and what you will do. They are then profiting from that data not only by ads, but by selling or giving away various custom tailored analysis of you to businesses and the governments. They know more about you than your significant other. Eric Schmidt got it right when he mentioned "creepy".
They should be known as a micro-ad-agency. Influencers are an extension of real-life Ponzi schemes. It's how Facebook serves 100s of ads because you can't get rid of FB/Insta, just in case Uncle Owen or Aunt Beru send you a photo.
My email account could have been leaked from only 2 sources, Facebook (or FB via Instagram) or Google. Either way, someone leaked the password to someone. There certainly is nobody in the world that could guess this particular account's password since I've never put it in the cloud or ever saved it even in the Apple Mac keychain for any Facebook or Instagram account. How else could the Russians selling Chinese copies of American goods have gotten an account in my name? Could my keychain email password have been hacked?
Is this the new privacy measurements by Facebook? It's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for em.
Google is an ad agencey; why would your information being made public cause them to collapse?
And so more and more online stuff gets compromised, but what really happens?
Everyone reacts by waving their arms in the air and shouting "privacy!" but is seems that these reports get forgotten quickly.
For internet-savvy people it's already getting a messed-up online world, but what about all those people who just sign-up and forget about their account..:
How many passwords do you have?
How many accounts are in use by you?
How many accounts use a similar password?
How many older accounts still exist but you are not aware of anymore?
Which accounts are key-accounts?
Which have additional security (2 factor, 2 step)?
Do you use iCloud keychain?
IMHO for the average user there are too many possibilities for hackers to get hold of someones online identity....
Everyone reacts by waving their arms in the air and shouting "privacy!" but is seems that these reports get forgotten quickly.
For internet-savvy people it's already getting a messed-up online world, but what about all those people who just sign-up and forget about their account..:
How many passwords do you have?
How many accounts are in use by you?
How many accounts use a similar password?
How many older accounts still exist but you are not aware of anymore?
Which accounts are key-accounts?
Which have additional security (2 factor, 2 step)?
Do you use iCloud keychain?
IMHO for the average user there are too many possibilities for hackers to get hold of someones online identity....
Well Google would collect your web searches on iOS as well.
Let's not forget that Google is the default search engine on iOS and it's consider by Tim himself: the best search engine for iOS users.
leaking their data is a GOOD thing. they should be punishable for their lying and desinformation. this is not advertising its a crime to humanity!
Though FB's security is questionable, this has nothing to do with Facebook. People who are IG users gave their info to a sketchy company, and that company got hacked. Surprised we're on page 4 of comments and nobody has said anything.
Also, email addresses and phone numbers are hardly sensitive info. And the rest is public info. There's not really a story here.
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Wow, now I feel like not only are you just casually ignoring me, but it’s very intentional... XD