Comment Re:The Wild West of the internet (Score 1) 39
If you use your phone with Facebook, they know exactly who you are, as does any other site.
Only if you use the app. The web site can not get your private data via the web browser.
If you use your phone with Facebook, they know exactly who you are, as does any other site.
Only if you use the app. The web site can not get your private data via the web browser.
...Bitcoin theft have been on the rise because, fuck, Bitcoin didn't even exist that long ago and stuff...
But EverQuest fraud and gold theft was a problem and was worked on by the FBI. As I remember, some fraud rings were found to have stolen millions of US Dollars worth of gold and other items.
We don't need 'World Cyber Police' yet. There isn't a democratic framework for it to operate within.
But we do since cyber crime almost always crosses state, and federal boundaries. Usually on purpose to make investigation harder. But you are correct in that setting up something like this and not having it abused will be very hard.
Look at how many websites require you to enter your name, address, date of birth, security question and security answer just to sign up for an account these days.
No, they require you to enter "A" name, address, date of birth, security question and security answer... Damn few actually verify a thing. But keeping track of all that data is hard without a good keyminder (like keypassX) and keeping track of a keyminder is a lot of work itself. Too many people would rather just give FaceBook all there infos. So you get the inevitable result of people being lazy with security.
With good encryption it should be hard enough to mess with the data that it just isn't worth it.
If they thought like that, they would have scrubbed the inputs before passing them to SQL.
This was an SQL vulnerability? Exactly how many more times must this happen before people implementing systems learn to SANITIZE THE FUCKING UNTRUSTED INPUTS?
Startups never will. They only think next quarter and next round of funding or acquisition, so security (and often licensing) is not an issue. But larger companies acquire startups, and then get bit. When will they learn that an accountant is not the best person for an IT audit?
In a way the cloud was big way back when. I remember in the late 70's my high school had a matrix dumb terminal tied to a couple college servers. It seems we are going back to that way of thinking. Use minimal hardware and let the power of the processing be handled elsewhere.
It is not about the processing power, it is about the control. However controls the data owns the data, regardless of law.
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