What's up with all this data breaches and leaks?
What's up with all this data breaches and leaks?
Was this always happening in this big scope? Leaks of games, data that is stolen, all these breaches in big companies. Feels like I see this everyday
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In my experience, it’s always been this bad. However, as the world becomes more connected, it becomes easier to find systems to break into and easier to find ways to break in. It’s only recently that most countries have enacted legislation to enforce mandatory reporting of data breaches, and so we hear more about them.
Cyber security has always been (and probably always will be) an arms race between those who want to secure data and those who want to steal it. As the value and usefulness of data goes up, so does the desire of the bad guys to steal it. Identity theft and just plain ransoming of data are only ever going to increase.
Use:
- a password manager
- a different random password or pass phrase for every site
- a different random email address for each site (Apple’s “Hide my Email”; Firefox Relay; DuckDuckGo mail; 33mail, for example)
- different false details as much as possible for every site
Don’t:
- Use the same details (name, password, email address) on every site
- use your real details if you can possibly avoid it. If you must, misspell your details (“Johhn Smith”, “1 Maiin Street”) so that you can track the misuse of your data.
Or buy a domain and run all your email through a catchall with different emails for different services.
Netflix @johnsmith.com, fishingworld @johnsmith.com etc.
Makes it easy to tell who cant be trusted.
fishingworld
Thought that said "fistingworld" and almost spilled my drink
Funny thing is when you have a catchall you can tell your friends your email is whatever the fuck you want. One of my buddies deadset thought my email address that everyone got was "Ifuckcats@email.com" for years.