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According to Google Translate: > Booking has never encountered espionage before. The company isn't really looking for it either. As long as it doesn't cause an
by qwertox 5y ago
According to Google Translate:
> Booking has never encountered espionage before. The company isn't really looking for it either. As long as it doesn't cause any hindrance, it won't cost you any money. The unspoken consensus among specialists within the company is: we suspect that intelligence services are watching, but as long as we don't see them, we don't worry.
What should make me believe that they don't have the same approach towards black hat hackers which are silently farming their data?
- arthur_sav 5y ago> as long as we don't see them, we don't worry If we don't know they exist... do they really exist? Brilliant
- sandworm101 5y ago>> black hat hackers How are foreign intelligence services not black hats? They are stealing data in order to use it for any number of non-nice things. Not selling the data on the dark web doesn't bleach their hats.
- that_guy_iain 5y agoI would assume most are hackers for hire. Just because their customers are goverments doesn't change the fact they're selling their wares and data found.
- jdavis703 5y agoIf intelligence agencies are after you you’ve got way bigger problems than some fraudsters using your data for financial scams. It’s the same reason smart lock hacks don’t scare me… Anyone who is exploiting technology to gain physical access to my physical body is going to get me, regardless if I get hacked or not (e.g. thugs could just kick my door in, or wait outside and launch an ambush).
- stjohnswarts 5y agoWait you don't have perimeter sensors and 360-degree camera coverage at your studio apartment?
- kube-system 5y agoEven if a smart lock used ROT13 encryption, the easiest way to defeat it is still probably a mechanical attack. The state of mechanical security is a whole new level of weak.
- Spooky23 5y agoThe previous owners of my house dropped several hundred dollars on a Medeco lock. Keys are a pain in the ass to replace, and there is literally a set of 3 windows within reach in the porch that could be opened trivially. The biggest feature of any lock is breaking into a locked house is a felony for the perp.
- kube-system 5y agoAnd if you ever accidentally lock yourself out, it's going to be a PITA. There's one good think about Kwiksets -- you don't always need to call a locksmith if you lock yourself out :)
- ficklepickle 5y agoMy boss once bought a really expensive lock with a magnetic key. He was going on about how it was unpickable. When the key was forgotten one time, we found it could be opened by sticking scissors in and turning. I'm not sure what the moral is. Your comment reminded me of this story.
- treeman79 5y agoMy house has one sided locks all over it. Kids are constantly locking themselves out of rooms / bathrooms. We use dry spaghetti to unlock them. Keep a few above door frame. Leaves guests bewildered when they come to stay.
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- furyg3 5y agoThey are definitely black hats. Intelligence services operating in foreign countries (physically or digitally) are by definition criminals, in that they are breaking the local laws where they are operating / accessing. That they are doing it for a 'good cause' (often debatable) is somewhat irrelevant, that is a risk/reward calculation that the country/agency/spy needs to make themselves. If a a friendly country of the Dutch government wants to access records of a Dutch company (Booking.com), there are numerous legal methods to access this data. What's instead happening is that the CIA hacks NL companies and the Dutch RIVM hacks American ones and they share information/metadata with each other so that they can make and end-run around the legal constraints of both nations.
- rurban 5y ago> That they are doing it for a 'good cause' (often debatable) I would not count their fascist agenda a good cause. Inciting wars, performing illegal wars, putsching socialistic leaders neither, ...
- Ichthypresbyter 5y ago>the CIA hacks NL companies and the Dutch RIVM hacks American ones and they share information/metadata The AIVD is the Dutch intelligence service, the RIVM is the public health institute. I don't think even the most out-there of Dutch conspiracy theorists have accused the RIVM of hacking American companies on behalf of the CIA...
- quantified 5y agoRight, they should pay for it from a data broker like everyone else.
- buzzwords 5y agoThis line of thinking comes from buying into the narrative that America (and west) is by definition good and so their activities are fine no matter what. They hack and steal data, we are ok with it. It's extremely dangerous.
- pbaka 5y agoCould we call it digital colonialism ?
- Nasrudith 5y agoDomestic intelligence services are also black hats. It isn't a matter of them not being black hats but about what they can get away with.