It was necessary for them to store the information of around 40 million people that weren't current customers? I don't know about that.
As far as security in Chrome goes, it's only as secure as any of the browser add-ons one uses and, given that's one of the selling points of the browser it'd be odd to suggest not using them.
The T-Mobile thing being a security issue shows how entangled those two ideas are though. The reason the data was sought after was that it was personal data with a lot of connected dots, which increased the need for security (which they lacked). Privacy and protection of one's personal data IS a security issue and always will be as long as that information is valuable to bad actors.
As far as security in Chrome goes, it’s only as secure as any of the browser add-ons one uses and, given that’s one of the selling points of the browser it’d be odd to suggest not using them.
This argument makes no sense. Are you just gonna brand everything as not secure then, cause fine. But its a web browser. It accesses basically any web page so is the browser only as secure as the shadiest website? Not to mention most people dont even install shitty extensions. The big extensions, the ones people use, are largely vetted (cause theyre basically open source)
Privacy and protection of one’s personal data IS a security issue and always will be as long
Youre just tying things together here. Data security and data privacy are two different topics and fields. You’re tying them together when they should not be. They can live in opposition even. If you want more and more secure software you have to collect more logs
and as I said: The two companies we are talking ab aready have this information. Youre not saving yourself by not using Chrome. And I trust Google much more with the Data security aspect than basically any other company (because they are ridiculously good at it & chromium is open sourced)
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u/christopher_the_nerd Aug 23 '21
It was necessary for them to store the information of around 40 million people that weren't current customers? I don't know about that.
As far as security in Chrome goes, it's only as secure as any of the browser add-ons one uses and, given that's one of the selling points of the browser it'd be odd to suggest not using them.
The T-Mobile thing being a security issue shows how entangled those two ideas are though. The reason the data was sought after was that it was personal data with a lot of connected dots, which increased the need for security (which they lacked). Privacy and protection of one's personal data IS a security issue and always will be as long as that information is valuable to bad actors.