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I think a lot of analogies miss the point that data was copied and transmitted to the client and accessed client side. I think it'd be more accurate to compare
by nijave 5y ago
I think a lot of analogies miss the point that data was copied and transmitted to the client and accessed client side. I think it'd be more accurate to compare to a barcode
Imagine requesting a voter registration form and you receive a letter in the mail with all previous residents social security numbers encoded in QR codes that were added as a "convenience feature" for the voting office
In that case, it'd be ridiculous to claim you "hacked the voting office"
- mind-blight 5y agoA similar example could be credit card strips. They actually had people's SSNs encoded in them for a while. Anyone with a reader and physical access to a card could grab them. Dateline did a report on it back in the day without having to deal with anything like this
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