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The issue is 23andMe is a honey pot. Thats fundamentally whats at play here.
by trident5000 3y ago
The issue is 23andMe is a honey pot. Thats fundamentally whats at play here.
- bertil 3y agoWhat do you mean by honey pot? I only know the meaning where it is a deliberate thing to attract bad actors. Is the entire company not meant to provide genetic information?
- api 3y agoThe entire Internet is a honey pot. You get something shiny, companies and governments get increasingly intrusive amounts of data about you.
- trident5000 3y agoA honey pot is just a place where sensitive and valuable information is centrally stored. They can be unavoidable but need to be well protected. Most companies fail at this. All it takes is one employee to pip install the wrong library or fall victim to a phishing attack or 3rd party vendor attack and its over. And on a long enough time scale, it happens.
- BHSPitMonkey 3y agoGP is correct, you are using the term to mean something different from everyone before you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_%28computing%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_%28computing%29 TL;DR: A honeypot is like a bait car in a police sting operation; It's something that looks like a vulnerable system with something of value to attackers, but in reality is a fake meant to catch intruders or collect data on them.