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Threads collects so much sensitive information it’s a ‘hacker’s dream,’ experts say (archive.today)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.

“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.

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[–] mycroft 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Everyone freaking out every time they realize every fucking 'type ahead' or "predictive text" system is essentially a Keylogger. Android and Iphone keyboards, the chrome browser, etc are keylogging all your shit already, and any javascript typeahead predictive engine that has to ask a service "what comes next" has to by it's nature have the things that you're typing to predict the next thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Predictive text isn't something I normally see in password fields.

[–] mycroft 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you'd think it'd get disabled for all the things, but yeah....

If you had one or two of their plugins/options enabled in chrome it was smart enough to detect when you typed your google password outside of google and send you to change it.

Password manager feature maybe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I do use a password manager, so maybe that's it.