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Getting a list of emails from a website by guessing a predictable ID gets your house raided by the FBI and a criminal conviction for accessing a computer withou
by like_any_other 2mo ago
Getting a list of emails from a website by guessing a predictable ID gets your house raided by the FBI and a criminal conviction for accessing a computer without authorization [1]. Why isn't fingerprinting treated the same? And I mean exactly the same - first an FBI raid, arrest, and confiscation of computers, and then they get their day in court.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security#AT&T/iPad_email_address_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security#AT&T/iPad_emai...
- emctech 2mo agoI doubt the FBI will be flying to china to knock down any doors! You aren't wrong though, and countries which enforce GDPR I would expect to make noise if this was happening to their constituents.