Comment on Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers.
AnarchoNoAdjective@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
“Noting that some of the records included data that could be used to determine where a call was made or text message sent”
Data breaches in surveillance capitalism. Very cool, very normal.
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 months ago
As long as computers are networked, there will always be data breaches. Doesn't matter what form of gov't or economy you live under.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unless the data isn’t actually stored. You can’t have a data breach if the data doesn’t exist.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can absolutely capture data in transmission
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes but that’s far less impactful of a breach than “we’ve actively surveilled and recorded all movements and actions of our customers for decade, stored it all haphazardly, and now someone else got it without paying for it like we normally arrange”
aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes but if the connection is encrypted E2E you can’t reliably afaik