(OT) Google: "Somebody knows your password"

[Duane Whitty]

On 17-08-06 04:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:52:26 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
>> Now I'm a little jumpy because someone could steal my password...
> 
> Why? It happens all the times that those companies get hacked and
> criminals share all the data they get from the accounts. Usually you
> don't get informed about it, when it happens, at the earliest the news
> report about it a few weeks later, when it leaks. However, the postman
> could read your postcards, so you don't write secrets on a postcard. If
> you care about privacy, then you shouldn't fear hackers that much, as
> you should fear a company such as Google. Before you care about
> criminal hackers, the NSA and something similar, keep in mind how
> Google benefits from providing you an account for free as in beer. Your
> account is nothing more than a postcard, it isn't a vault.
> 
> 
+1 Ralf, wish more people would listen and come to understand that when
you get something for free from a for profit company you and/or your are
the actual product.

Best Regards,
Duane

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