ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoCrooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers.krebsonsecurity.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down11
arrow-up1201arrow-down1external-linkCrooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers.krebsonsecurity.comModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareAnarchoNoAdjective@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down3·5 months ago“Noting that some of the records included data that could be used to determine where a call was made or text message sent” Data breaches in surveillance capitalism. Very cool, very normal.
minus-squareSaltySalamander@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·5 months agoAs long as computers are networked, there will always be data breaches. Doesn’t matter what form of gov’t or economy you live under.
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·5 months agoUnless the data isn’t actually stored. You can’t have a data breach if the data doesn’t exist.
minus-squareEntropywins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoYou can absolutely capture data in transmission
minus-squareJJROKCZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoYes but that’s far less impactful of a breach than “we’ve actively surveilled and recorded all movements and actions of our customers for decade, stored it all haphazardly, and now someone else got it without paying for it like we normally arrange”
minus-squareaStonedSanta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoYes but if the connection is encrypted E2E you can’t reliably afaik
“Noting that some of the records included data that could be used to determine where a call was made or text message sent”
Data breaches in surveillance capitalism. Very cool, very normal.
As long as computers are networked, there will always be data breaches. Doesn’t matter what form of gov’t or economy you live under.
Unless the data isn’t actually stored. You can’t have a data breach if the data doesn’t exist.
You can absolutely capture data in transmission
Yes but that’s far less impactful of a breach than “we’ve actively surveilled and recorded all movements and actions of our customers for decade, stored it all haphazardly, and now someone else got it without paying for it like we normally arrange”
Yes but if the connection is encrypted E2E you can’t reliably afaik