http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/04/05/how-did-epsilon-expose-your-email-address-to-hackers/?partner=fbwall
A company that no one has never heard before has been breached by hackers. The problem with this company that goes by the name of Epsilon, is that it provides services to many corporations such as Citibank or top 10 Forbes companies. Epsilon holds information of millions of Americans and yet people think that Google is too much. It was only names and emails that were exposed, but this tells us that hackers are capable to breach at almost every company.
Interesting article. Maybe it should be illegal to traffic in consumer data. That sort of regulation (like there is in Europe) would also hurt Google's revenue stream.
ReplyDeleteOn hackers--are all of them criminals? Might some of them be revolutionaries?
True. Not all of them are criminals, but what they do is considered a crime; therefore, it makes them criminals.
ReplyDeleteLegally. But then we are all criminals--speeding tickets, drugs, file-sharing. Or, undocumented workers. From the standpoint of the British, the American revolutionaries were criminals.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I would think there are different levels of hacking. In my opinion, the bottom base of hacking would be file sharing because I definitely contribute to it, and the high point of it would be hacking information. I don't think you could call something such as music sharing as a breach of security, hence the word "sharing", people don't share personal information with strangers.
ReplyDeleteI strongly support the establishment of EU style laws on the books that our professor has mentioned.
ReplyDeleteAlso: hackers can hack anything; period.
Google gets hacked all the time and they have all of my text messages, phone calls, and a spattering of GPS data on me going back roughly a year. Not to mention the rest of it....
But let's remember that they don't have to get hacked to share your information with other corporations or with the government, etc. They can do with it as they please; have you ever read through a EULA top to bottom? Me neither.