DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked | TechCrunch::Personal data is the new gold. The recent 23andMe data breach is a stark reminder of a chilling reality – our most intimate, personal information might

  • Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This logic is equivalent to a bank saying, “It’s not our fault your money got stolen; you should have had a better lock on your front door.”

    Isn’t that exactly what the bank would tell you if someone stole your personal info from your home and used it to empty your account?

    This author is a dumbass.

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    1 year ago

    I swear this headline was just a comment the last time this got posted…

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    The 23andMe breach saw hackers gaining access to a whopping 6.9 million users’ personal information, including family trees, birth years and geographic locations. It brings to the fore a few significant questions: Are companies really doing enough to protect our data? Should we trust them with our most intimate information?

    Well . . . NO. But that has never not been the case. These fucking cheese-brained twits who pour out every scrap of personal - and genetic! - info to the tatty basket of whatever Zuckerberg their moron friends are using has been a problem from day one.

    Nothing has changed. Google is evil, Twitter went fascist, facepals is an arm of the FSB, and All Your Genes Are Belong To Us. No fucking shit.

    Using computers for everything requires understanding them and most. People. Don’t.

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      I like entertaining the idea that purchasing technology should require some form of license like a firearm.

      The only problem with the idea is that I would probably be out of a job pretty quick, given no one would be able to use computers.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Read DNS and wondered why those are supposed for that to happen lol.

    In regards to the headline: Just don’t use that service and discourage anyone in the family?
    Seems more like a gimmick to me.
    If I’d need something like that, I’d go to a professional lab.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because users used bad passwords and had their accounts logged into by with these legitimate passwords…?

      Seems like misinformed outrage to me.