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Is this newfound outpouring of confirmed hacks a result of the market becoming more blasé about leaked passwords, or is this just a statistical anomale?
by diminoten 14y ago
Is this newfound outpouring of confirmed hacks a result of the market becoming more blasé about leaked passwords, or is this just a statistical anomale?
- Mz 14y agoEclipse? Transit of Venus?* * (I know, I know: Wrong crowd. But take it as a tongue in cheek way of saying that it could be a "trend" with another explanation than either of the two you posit.)
- diminoten 14y agoThat's fair, I just wonder if there's some valid research worth doing here to figure out what's going on. Hacks aren't exactly going down, after all, and if we knew at least one of the causes that we don't already know about now, security might be slightly easier.
- Mz 14y agoIf you are curious about what is behind the trend, you could start a file collecting stories and see if you can spot any similarities, then ask around or whatever (I am not a hacker, so not sure what the next research step would be). That is the kind of thing I do when something piques my curiosity and I want it answered enough to satisfy my curiosity but don't care if it is answered well enough to "prove" anything to anyone else.
- joenathan 14y agoI'm not going to trust these companies again, I closed my accounts with last.fm and linkedin, you get one shot with my data.