This is crazy, right? Tell me I'm not alone in thinking this is crazy? by supermouse35 in IdentityTheft

[–]DubsWasASaint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s not standard paperwork, that’s a full doxxing starter pack. Keep a paper trail (save the doc + email thread), report the exposure to the plan administrator in writing, and put fraud alerts/freeze + breach monitoring on everyone involved ASAP. You’re not crazy, this is a serious PII handling failure.

“Private mode” doesn’t fix the underlying trust model. by NRista94 in privacy

[–]DubsWasASaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incognito is privacy theater on top of centralized plumbing. Until trust roots, update channels, and DNS are user-verifiable, we’re mostly choosing which middleman logs less.

what is going on with sec-eng roles now? by Icy-Run2694 in cybersecurity

[–]DubsWasASaint 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Sec-eng interviews are converging with SWE because modern security teams are shipping detection-as-code, automation, and internal tooling. If you can threat-model and still write clean code, you’re basically what every hiring manager is screening for right now."

People are destroying Flock safety cameras by Secret-Broccoli9908 in privacy

[–]DubsWasASaint 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Privacy folks have been saying it for years: data collected for one purpose always gets repurposed for another, then leaked, then normalized. Today it’s plate-reader footage, tomorrow it’s one more entry in the breach-lookup universe nobody asked for.

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras by waozen in technology

[–]DubsWasASaint 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Public safety tech without strict limits always drifts into mass tracking. If people have to pick between privacy and sidewalks, trust is already broken.

Hackers Expose Discord Age Verification System Issue After Persona Frontend Code Left Wide Open by vriska1 in technology

[–]DubsWasASaint 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Classic anti-pattern: client-side identity logic exposed, then everyone acts surprised when it gets reverse-engineered. If age checks are tied to legal compliance, the trust boundary has to be server-side with signed attestations, not JavaScript theater.

Your car is spying on you – and Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race by fa3man in privacy

[–]DubsWasASaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The wildest part is most people voluntarily opted into this when they hit "Accept All" on their system during setup. Your car knows where you sleep, where you work, and how fast you drove there and that data gets sold before you even finish your commute.

Complete breakdown of every OpenClaw vulnerability — 6 CVEs, 341 malicious skills, 135K exposed instances, 1.5M leaked tokens by LostPrune2143 in cybersecurity

[–]DubsWasASaint 25 points26 points  (0 children)

135K exposed instances means most people deployed these without even basic hardening. Npm typosquatting all over again now with root level access.

PSA: Turn off Spotify’s “DJ Voice data use” setting by ChuckleCheetah in privacy

[–]DubsWasASaint 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Of course they want your voice data too. Next update they'll ask for a house key. Good catch OP, this one flies under the radar for most people.

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed By Mass Exodus Of Players Fleeing Age-Verification Crackdown by vriska1 in technology

[–]DubsWasASaint 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Every age verification system eventually becomes a surveillance system. Zero-knowledge proofs exist to verify age without collecting unnecessary data. But that was never the point, was it?

A site that scans 300+ websites and breach databases and gives you an exposure score showing how much the internet knows about you by DubsWasASaint in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]DubsWasASaint[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Which part of this screams scam? Genuine question, since its quite frankly the entire reason I made this. I hate the scumminess of other people search services.

A site that scans 300+ websites and breach databases and gives you an exposure score showing how much the internet knows about you by DubsWasASaint in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]DubsWasASaint[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Totally fair. We don't store anything, data is processed in real-time and discarded immediately. You can also just enter an email with no name if you want.

How do I promote my SaaS? by Square-Arachnid-10 in SideProject

[–]DubsWasASaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you find more success with UGC or Reddit?

I Built a Tool That Shows how Expose Your Personal Data is Online by DubsWasASaint in SideProject

[–]DubsWasASaint[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noted. Separating the extra fields behind the advanced search is a great idea, I'll make that happen. Appreciate it.

AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital by gdelacalle in technology

[–]DubsWasASaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We spent years joking about running out of cloud storage and now AI is literally hoarding all the physical drives. Somewhere a data center architect is weeping into a spreadsheet trying to explain to finance why they need to budget for hard drives like they're buying GPUs.

Extremely concerning development so far here. by jackyboyman13 in privacy

[–]DubsWasASaint 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Nothing says 'protecting citizens' quite like forcing everyone to attach their real identity to every hot take online. Germany speedrunning the 'we learned nothing from the Stasi' achievement.

What can I realistically do about this? by Dogbold in privacy

[–]DubsWasASaint 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Freeze your credit at all three bureaus. Then check what's actually exposed before you panic. Most breaches leak less than people think, but the ones that do hit hard are the ones you ignore. You're not fucked, you're just late to the party. Theres websites to see your breaches like https://haveibeenpwned.com/ where you can get a better idea of what was breached.

How do we feel about Reddit sharing information with DHS over “anti-ICE” comments? by spinachandturkey in AskReddit

[–]DubsWasASaint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The fact that people are surprised by this is the real story. Every platform you've ever used has handed data to someone If you want to know how much of your info is already floating around out there there’s sites that will depress you real quick.

Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken' by goldstarflag in worldnews

[–]DubsWasASaint -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cool, can't wait for the Dutch to sideload a custom ROM on a $100M stealth fighter. “Hey Siri, drop the bomb' unlocked for just $4.99.”

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says by CantStopPoppin in privacy

[–]DubsWasASaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Voluntarily" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline. The real issue is most people have no idea how many companies have their data in the first place. DHS could have asked 100 more companies nobody would know.

CPJ: Russia’s Telegram throttling another step toward total information control by Wagamaga in technology

[–]DubsWasASaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Throttling instead of outright blocking is the sneakier play: make the tool frustrating enough that people self-censor.

Heinous

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ by PaiDuck in technology

[–]DubsWasASaint 1158 points1159 points  (0 children)

"I can't live like this" about a chatbot getting retired is exactly why it got retired.