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Except that visiting a website is a known, expected information leak to the website owner, and for 70% of web users also automatically to Google. On the other
by leppr 7y ago
Except that visiting a website is a known, expected information leak to the website owner, and for 70% of web users also automatically to Google.
On the other hand leaking the list of apps on your local computer, and to a third-party to top it off, is unexpected and thus more harmful.
- FireBeyond 7y agoI'd disagree with that. Given that the Wacom utility is full of app-specific references and "customize your tablet, per app", I'd say that this is on par. Ask random person, "Hey, do you know that when you visit John's blog, he sends your information to Google, too, not just himself?" and I guarantee you the answer is probably closer to 7% than 70%.
- risyachka 7y agoIn theory yes. In reality no one cares what apps you use. They will do some big data analysis and thats it.
- leppr 7y agoThat's wishful thinking, not reality. In reality, many different actors can benefit from info about the used software on a particular users' PC. And now they know who to bribe to get it. > Has this investor got a beta build from that new startup everyone's talking about? Their bets are always winning, I better frontrun them if that's the case. > What apps could I exploit to get into this guy's computer? > Wait why is my employee suddenly running tor browser after I involved her into this new secret deal? Better be careful with her, she might be talking to someone. > Damn, our competitor's engineers are all running our app. Let's correlate the timestamps with our own backend to discover their accounts and push a special update to them.