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Holding credentials is not violating privacy. It would be possible to use those credentials to violate privacy, but merely having them is not that act.
by dogecoinbase 11y ago
Holding credentials is not violating privacy. It would be possible to use those credentials to violate privacy, but merely having them is not that act.
- dsacco 11y agoHolding sensitive credentials is absolutely a violation of privacy. This is like saying that having a user's password is not a privacy violation unless you use it to gain access to their account.
- enixn 11y agoSo would you agree that holding the keys to someone's house is also a privacy violation? What if instead of keys, you were holding a set of lockpicks? Would everyone's privacy of home be immediately violated?
- foldr 11y agoIt's all a question of intent. If you keep the lockpicks so that you can pick locks, then yes. If you're a lockpick collector, then no.
- Gravityloss 11y agoI understood it was employee credentials, not customer.
- comex 11y agoHolding a manually chosen password can be a privacy violation because it's a small peek into the user's psyche. (I wouldn't say the employee "changeme", "instagram" etc. passwords count, although the act of running a password cracking tool meant that he could have seen a more personal password.) Holding some randomly generated numbers that could be used to access a server is not.