Threads collects so much sensitive information it’s a ‘hacker’s dream,’ experts say - eviltoast
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The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.

“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.

  • mycroft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    you’d think it’d get disabled for all the things, but yeah…

    If you had one or two of their plugins/options enabled in chrome it was smart enough to detect when you typed your google password outside of google and send you to change it.

    Password manager feature maybe?