Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account
ryry1985@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI think the method of researching and then informing the affected companies confidentially is a good way to do it but companies often ignore these findings. It has to be publicized somehow to pressure them into fixing the problem.
rollmagma@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Indeed, then it becomes a market and it incentivises more research on that area. Which I don’t think is helpful for anyone.It’s like your job description being “professional pessimist”. We could be putting that amount of effort into building more secure software to begin with.