Poll of the Day > Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235 million Twitter accounts

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/04/witter-leak-emails-handles/

Assuming people just signed up with an alt email, it's still probably the same level of security and safety? Guess anybody who signed up with a publicly-identifiable email could have issues, but 99% of people aren't going to be impacted.

Count_Drachma posted...

Assuming people just signed up with an alt email, it's still probably the same level of security and safety? Guess anybody who signed up with a publicly-identifiable email could have issues, but 99% of people aren't going to be impacted.

Why would you assume that? Yes, some people use alt emails for sign-ups like that, but you're grossly overestimating the computer competence of the average person if you think that even a majority of users used an email that isn't actually tied to whoever the account is meant to represent, let alone 99% of them.

I remember that and exactly how it worked.

Yeah that's going to get some people murdered.

I dont use that shit.

Count_Drachma posted...

Assuming people just signed up with an alt email, it's still probably the same level of security and safety? Guess anybody who signed up with a publicly-identifiable email could have issues, but 99% of people aren't going to be impacted.

The issue is that is de-anonymizes accounts that were using an identifying e-mail that they weren't expecting anyone to see.

So it's just a niche thing that will get some small percentage of "infidels" put in jail.

HornedLion posted...

I dont use that shit.

MeToo but it could (and has) happen to any other Company who uses Web base services

That isn't even close to one of the biggest leaks in recent history. Facebook info got leaked on twice as many people, and it was their phone numbers, addresses, and birth dates (all stuff that can be used for more then just spam, they can actually use it to steal your identity):

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/28/23481786/meta-fine-facebook-data-leak-ireland-dpc-gdpr

adjl posted...

Why would you assume that? Yes, some people use alt emails for sign-ups like that, but you're grossly overestimating the computer competence of the average person if you think that even a majority of users used an email that isn't actually tied to whoever the account is meant to represent, let alone 99% of them.

I feel like you're assuming the Twitter demographic is much older than it actually is, unless Twitter's average age really is in the 60s.

Count_Drachma posted...

I feel like you're assuming the Twitter demographic is much older than it actually is, unless Twitter's average age really is in the 60s.

I think youre assuming Twitter uses are more careful and delineate than they actually are. Shit that goes for the majority of people - most people would have just used their main email address rather than creating an alt specifically for it.

thats just how people sign up to things these days Im surprised that was his first assumption

FatalAccident posted...

I think youre assuming Twitter uses are more careful and delineate than they actually are. Shit that goes for the majority of people - most people would have just used their main email address rather than creating an alt specifically for it.

thats just how people sign up to things these days Im surprised that was his first assumption

You are also assuming that most Zoomers actually HAVE a main email address. In my experience, they don't. They create one to sign up to social media, then never use it and communicate strictly through social media. Even though I am almost 40, I can tell you the only thing I use my e-mail for is when some site tells me they need an email and when communicating with my 96 year old grandpa. Even my dad doesn't use e-mail except for his business.

Count_Drachma posted...

I feel like you're assuming the Twitter demographic is much older than it actually is, unless Twitter's average age really is in the 60s.

The vast majority of younger people also aren't very computer literate. They know how to do more things on computers than older generations, by simple virtue of spending more time on them, but that doesn't translate into actually understanding how they work, how to fix them, or how to avoid some of the more common problems. That includes more nuanced security concerns like this; they may know better than to click on links in emails about expired Apple ID's, but thinking through online security to enough of an extent to ask "how can I minimize the harm caused to me if this service is hacked?" is more than most users - of any demographic - will do.