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Dude, did you read my point? I said it was still bad.
by HumblyTossed 3y ago
Dude, did you read my point? I said it was still bad.
- fsflover 3y ago"Still bad" strongly underestimates the problem. Metadata often is more important than the data as demonstrated in the above examples.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoBut my intention was to point out that actual content wasn't being transmitted and that "only" meta data was gleaned since some people seem to think that chat messages are being scooped up. Other people have rightly pointed out that meta data is bad and why and I didn't feel the need to reiterate that.
- fsflover 3y agoIt's not the intention that matters but the execution.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoI disagree. Thieves can't steal my money from my bank with metadata.
- fsflover 3y agoThey might, using social engineering and knowing a lot about your connections.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoThat's a stretch, you can use social engineering to do essentially anything then.
- fsflover 3y agoNot if you know nothing about your target.
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- acdha 3y agoI don’t agree with them plagiarizing the EFF’s blog post[0] but I think it is a mistake to use “only”. Both can be damaging and neither is clearly more or less bad since so much depends on the circumstances – like if the police have compromised one party in a conversation, they already have the payload so the real risk would be things like location data. We should probably treat both of those as equivalent risks until enough specific details about a situation are available to say which is riskier. 0. https://ssd.eff.org/module/communicating-others https://ssd.eff.org/module/communicating-others
- HumblyTossed 3y agoBut my intention was to point out that actual content wasn't being transmitted and that "only" meta data was gleaned since some people seem to think that chat messages are being scooped up. Other people have rightly pointed out that meta data is bad and why and I didn't feel the need to reiterate that.