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Threads collects so much sensitive information it’s a ‘hacker’s dream,’ experts say (archive.today)

submitted 11 months 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Serious question:

How much data does the ActivityPub protocol give out if it was to be federated and I was to, for example, reply to somebody on a Threads post using this account?

Or is the objection more that we don't want 99% of the Fediverse to be hosted on Threads?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I never have an expectation of privacy when it comes to content posted on any public platform.

It’s being part of the audience that engages and provides content that leads to the feedback loop to stay in the Meta platform I’m so completely against. Same reason people deleted their content from reddit so it doesn’t provide future direct engagement to the platform through comment responses, upvotes/downvotes, and search engine results. If people want to post a link or copy paste comments to Meta I’m fine with that. Meta users are welcomed to lurk or create separate accounts here to use non meta federate instances. Go scrape or set up an instance and get all the content for all I care.

But, being actually part of the same interacting group that is choosing to feed into the value of Meta is not what I want. I didn't come here to be a meta user and whether it's through their instance or indirectly through federation that people can reply to your comments like you did mine is enough to be part of the Meta user base at that point. No thanks. At least back on reddit you know you aren't directly contributing to the Meta platform and only interacting with the reddit user base.