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JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 11 months agoIf you share your nudes with the “friends only” privacy settings on facebook, and someone else accesses one of your friends accounts because they reused their password and proceeds to leak those photos, is it the fault of Facebook, your friend, the person leaking them, or you?
Because that is exactly what happened here. Credit stuffing reused passwords and scraping opt-in “friends only” shared data.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Private health data was compromised as well, on a smaller scale. It doesn’t make sense to blame users for a security breach of a corporation, literally ever. That’s my point. The friend was dumb, and you shared something maybe you shouldn’t have. But that doesn’t also absolve the company of poor security practices. I very strongly doubt that 14,000 people knew or consciously chose to directly share with a collective 7 million people.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
But they did. All 7 million of them - that’s why their data was visible for those 14000.
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