What are some (not illegal) ideas to make corporations feel the pain when they allow our data to be stolen?

posted 24 days ago

I’m getting a bit sick of large corporations a) demanding excess data as a condition of doing business with me, b) allowing it to be stolen, and c) giving zero fucks about it.

What are some things that us netizens can do to make our displeasure known.

Extra points for funny ideas.

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fool@programming.dev

40 points

24 days ago

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/327:_Exploits_of_a_Mom

SQL sanitization joke. Won’t affect most DBs today.

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keisatsu@infosec.pub

12 points

24 days ago

As a security consultant who tests web applications on the regular: LOL

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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works

19 points

24 days ago

Still, any programmer worth their salt should filter their inputs. One group at work refuses to do it and they always get away with it and it’s infuriating

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PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world

4 points

24 days ago

One group at work refuses to do it

Sounds like a huge liability to the company.

and they always get away with it

Until they don’t. All it would take is one malicious actor (competing company, spurned employee, data thief, etc) wrecking/stealing their entire database with an injection attack.

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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works

1 point

23 days ago

Their exact position would make it significantly less likely, since they aren’t working with databases, but software for individual products. That being said, it’s still shitty practice

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