Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
by jclardy on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:30AM
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I think the trust is a new thing though, new to the social media age. I remember growing up with computers in the 90's and people I knew wouldn't even consider entering a credit card number on a website. Now we give them freely. People used anonymous handles on AIM. At some point this changed and people decided they could be themselves on the internet, which is a fine idea, but the trust just went too far.
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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
by wuliwong on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:41AM
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And I believe Facebook was largely the site that got people comfortable using their real names and personas online.
Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
by lerpa on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:50AM
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Exactly. Another example is applications "phoning home" (desltop applications sending information back to the server) that not that much ago was considered a serious abuse. And people on forums would lambast you when you asked how to implement something like that. Now it's called telemetry and is the norm.
Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
by distances on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:55PM
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Indeed, I remember the backslash ZoneAlarm got for this. Lots of people changed to another firewall as a consequence.
Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
by epalm on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:34AM
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This was visible when using credit cards in stores, too.
1990s: your signature needs to match exactly so we know it's really you!
2000s: you must enter a PIN that hopefully only you know?
2010s: fuck it just tap the card near the reader