InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agoIreland fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down10
arrow-up189arrow-down1external-linkIreland fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees.arstechnica.comInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·4 days agoAnd 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.
minus-squareChronicon [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 days agothe dataset would be quietly stashed in an NSA datacenter along with everything else on facebook
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoBet it already is.
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.
the dataset would be quietly stashed in an NSA datacenter along with everything else on facebook
Bet it already is.