• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    “Yes I would like a government that narrowly resisted a violent coup a couple years ago to be able to link me to every off the cuff remark I’ve ever crapped out.”

    • nobody in the fucking world, hopefully
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    Sure, I’ll give my ID and personal details to Elon Musk. He seems like a perfectly rational adult. /s

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      This the same Elon who doxxed a guy who took a picture of him that one time?

      Imagine you post something online he doesn’t like and he sends some goons over in a blacked out cyber truck

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    I’m sure X security is flawless and this info will never be stolen. This definitely won’t make them an even bigger target for hackers.

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    didn’t Parler have something like this, then their entire DB got hacked handed over to the FBI just after jan 6th, complete with hundreds of videos of the traitors committing crimes that they upload themselves? since Parler didn’t strip any metadata from uploaded media, the feds were able to use it all as evidence and use everyone’s IDs to tie it all to them.

    I bet they arrested hundreds of people this way and used tons more of it at the various trials

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    Oh boy, that au10tix sales pitch:

    Did we mention? We built the technology that provided identity intelligence for airports and border controls. Then we added new superpowers for digital enterprise with the help of machine learning and all that other clever stuff.

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    Who here is going to put their ID and photo on X/Twitter

    Maybe not so many of the lemmy users but I guess, most normies will probably just give twitter/x all it requests even ID and photo

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        Not so sure about that, I feel like average people are waking up to technological bullshit like this more and more every year. Yeah there’ll still be an overly high amount of idiots, but I’ve learned that even older people can change and question things like this.

        You can only get so many “We’re giving you 2 free years of identity theft protection because we got hacked and your personal information got stolen.” from big companies like your cell phone company, credit check company, etc. before you’re like “Hey, anything I put online can get stolen by criminals…”

        Even if you’re a tech-unsavvy type. At some point the light bulbs turns on and you put 2 and 2 together.

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          Some will say they care about it, but when threatened with having their social media taken away, they will cave and give the info. Others will say something like “I haven’t done anything wrong so I have nothing to hide”. They still use Chrome and Gmail. They don’t use an ad blocker. They still install apps that request every single permission on their phones. Protecting your privacy online is extremely difficult and most people aren’t willing to do it.

          Normies can’t remember things unless they are constantly reminded of it. Most probably don’t even know when these companies get hacked unless it gets talked about on the news. They don’t see the warning emails because it gets lost with all of the spam they get because they use the same email address for everything, same password too so the email account just got hacked too.

          Maybe I swallowed too many blackpills but I just don’t see any positive changes regarding this happening any time soon without some new laws being passed, which won’t happen because these companies own every government.

          It’s crazy because when I was a child these same people always told me to never tell anyone online my real name, age, or location. Now they are scrolling through facebook all day and constantly telling me to make an account.

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      if anything i would doubt that most people can be bothered to fish up all this documentation and go through the rigamarole of submitting it, i certainly feel exhausted just thinking about it

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    People eat Elon Musk’s garbage PR like it’s dinner.

    Elon will say/do anything to stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Any publicity is good publicity in his eyes. Stop doing the billionaire’s work for him.

  • TheProtagonist@lemmy.world
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    Wasn’t Twitter / Xitter / X (whatever they are called now) the company that asked your for your phone number “for your own (account) security” and then got all these phone numbers stolen by some hackers?

    Hell yeah, why not do the same shit with your government ID. These are probably even more worth in the darknet.

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    Hot fuck on a stick, no! I didn’t sign up for Spoutible because they wanted all that personal information! What are you, a bank? (Oh wait, he WANTS X to be a bank, doesn’t he.)

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    From the text on there, you can see it’s probably not that insecure. Au10tix is the company actually doing the identity verification and they’re an Israel-based company that seems to be pretty legit. I bet X only stores the data in-memory while they send it over to the appropriate APIs or something like that.

    Not that I trust them anyway with who’s in charge over there.

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      As a Cyber Security professional I am telling you now, it is not a matter of “if” Au10tix get hacked and leak data it is when.

      Everyone should minimise the number of companies with important Personally Identifiable Information to prevent identity theft and other scams.

      Companies are not trustworthy while they are motivated solely by profit.

      I would hope that people who have embraced the Fediverse concept over corporate options would be more discerning with their personal information.