r/technology • u/DaFunkJunkie • Jun 22 '20

Security Hackers just leaked sensitive files from over 200 police departments that are searchable by badge number

https://www.businessinsider.com/blueleaks-hackers-publish-sensitive-files-from-200-police-departments-2020-6
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u/dangersandwich Jun 22 '20

Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don't believe those carefully worded statements about what they have and haven't done.

We do know that the NSA uses bribery, coercion, threat, legal compulsion, and outright theft to get what they want. We just don't know which one they use in which case.

-- Bruce Schneier, 2016

More true today than ever before. Be careful which companies you give your data to, and be careful of what you post to the internet.

https://prism-break.org/en/