- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@derp.foo
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@derp.foo
Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers::Hackers exploited a known but unpatched flaw, allowing hackers access to the sensitive information of almost 36 million Comcast customers.
Imagine if your connection history got leaked by this.
“Whoa holy shit this dude looks at a fucking ton of yiff every day”
(not me since I use an encrypted DNS provider… but someone like me)
a good reason to always have your vpn on
That way your info only gets exposed when the VPN sells it
Depends on what VPN
only if you choose one that logs data.
an ISP-only approach is objectively worse in every way: not only you often don’t even have an option to choose between them, but they have all your private info, are subject to your country’s laws, and they’re known to log and report data to 3 letter agencies, data that can probably also be stolen or purchased by other bad actors.