Privacy cannot be asked for. Secrecy cannot be asked for. You must make them the default, or this will happen, again, and again, and again.

Privacy cannot be asked for. Secrecy cannot be asked for. You must make them the default, or this will happen, again, and again, and again.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/

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sadly 95% of the twitter hacks are employees of mobile service provider companies that are low-wage paid and will sam-swip a high target profile number for a sum, just like twitter support staff giving access to change people's pw for 100k smh

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I was a sales manager for Sprint for many years and you could get fired for even looking up a celebrity account. All account access was recorded. People find ways around everything, though. The police would also try to scare my reps into giving them info without a warrant. Not on my watch!

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Indeed, in this instance it was the data storage provider (Snowflake) that was compromised, not even AT&T’s own systems