They don’t need to sell that information to be untrustworthy, they just need to lose it.
This is how people steal your identity or buy stuff with your credit card even though you only gave that information to big corporations. It has happened a lot and is still happening.
As someone who has worked on large databases I can confidently say that every single piece of information the company had on all of it’s customers was available at my fingertips in clear text except for the passwords which I could have cracked in the thousands per second if they had less than 9 characters, which a lot of passwords did because the requirement was at least 8.
The only way the company can prevent me from doing malicious things with your data is if they only hire people with a moral compass and paying them enough. And the first one isn’t exactly easy.
There is not a lot you can do as a consumer to not get taken advantage of except minimizing the amount of data a company has on you because they don’t care enough and you will care once the police comes knocking on your door because of a crime someone did with your identity.
You can look up a vast majority of places that you have likely lost your login information from.
Like my point here is you’d have to drop a lot more than just windows to be safe from this.
Yeah, you have to trust places that have login information. And you can’t quite avoid that unless you stop using the internet. Best you can do is minimize the damage with stronger passwords and not sharing passwords across sites.
But my point is this analogy is trying to make something heavy out of something that we’ve already had to deal with since the dawn of the internet.
Cause you care.
Corporation doesn’t give a shit about the information, and selling login information would be a massive scandal for them.
Like this analogy is asinine. It could be applied to a bunch of software that would have everything to lose being caught doing it.
They don’t need to sell that information to be untrustworthy, they just need to lose it.
This is how people steal your identity or buy stuff with your credit card even though you only gave that information to big corporations. It has happened a lot and is still happening.
As someone who has worked on large databases I can confidently say that every single piece of information the company had on all of it’s customers was available at my fingertips in clear text except for the passwords which I could have cracked in the thousands per second if they had less than 9 characters, which a lot of passwords did because the requirement was at least 8.
The only way the company can prevent me from doing malicious things with your data is if they only hire people with a moral compass and paying them enough. And the first one isn’t exactly easy.
There is not a lot you can do as a consumer to not get taken advantage of except minimizing the amount of data a company has on you because they don’t care enough and you will care once the police comes knocking on your door because of a crime someone did with your identity.
That…already happens though.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
You can look up a vast majority of places that you have likely lost your login information from.
Like my point here is you’d have to drop a lot more than just windows to be safe from this.
Yeah, you have to trust places that have login information. And you can’t quite avoid that unless you stop using the internet. Best you can do is minimize the damage with stronger passwords and not sharing passwords across sites.
But my point is this analogy is trying to make something heavy out of something that we’ve already had to deal with since the dawn of the internet.
Certainly you can’t be safe from this, you can just try to minimize the possibility of it happening by reducing the data you share to a minimum.
Yeah I guess the analogy is not entirely fitting. Thinking about how corporations use my data still creeps me out though haha.