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u/Kanomus_37 Mar 29 '23
Ok so I get that leaking users email addresses will very bad, but why would it be "catastrophic"? They don't store the passwords (directly) so they cannot leak them, so basically just the emails get leaked, and I don't get why that will "destroy lives", please help me understand this
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u/GringoSwingo Mar 29 '23
There’s bunch of people having ID scans/photos on their e-mail accounts and also other fragile private data. I know a guy, who actually, cause of that still repays not his loan (but taken on him).
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u/Kanomus_37 Mar 29 '23
"on their e-mail accounts"? Like stored within some e-mails they sent themselves? If that's what you are talking about, the account will need to be hacked, which can be done without the data leak. Or are you saying that just knowing which IDs to try to brute force will be beneficial to those hackers?
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u/beepboopscooploop1 Mar 29 '23
Little do they know I’m homeless
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u/mrfungaltoe Mar 29 '23
Whats in OPs emails that has him so worried?
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u/RustedRuss Mar 29 '23
This is actually one of the dumbest tech related posts I’ve seen on here. The entire point of an email address is for people to know it… you know, so they can send you things. Also, how is gmail or any emailing system supposed to work without knowing your email address?
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u/madar2252 Mar 29 '23
When you talk about train robbery, I would like to clarify that it was no loss of trains in the event, it was rather the content of the train...
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u/yeahthegoys Mar 29 '23
Are you a fucking idiot? What are you gonna do if I give you my email address? Send me a bomb through my computer?
you can LITERALLY go to the google login screen and just start typing random usernames in and if it goes to the password prompt, guess what that's a real email address. Whoop de fucking do now what sherlock?
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u/Forced_Abortion_ Linux User Mar 29 '23
- I'm willing to bet Google cares about their security.
- Even if they are leaked, they are hashed and would probably still have to be brute forced, which you can do even if they aren't leaked.
- If for some reason they were leaked, whoever leaked them would definitely sell them, which means not anyone can just look up someones passwords.
- Yeah, believe it or not, Google stores their users passwords.
- Even if, after all that, people could still see each others passwords, I doubt anything bad would happen. Lastpass just had a breach a few months ago and it was news for a few days, but at the end of the day, no one gives a shit.
Any questions?
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u/Frankwater0522 Professional Dumbass Mar 29 '23
People are aware of all these facts but chose to ignore them or make it sound worse than it is
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u/OneHornyRhino Nice meme you got there Mar 29 '23
Passwords are encrypted...
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u/nalla_baalu Mar 29 '23
I don't want to nitpick, but passwords are hashed, not encrypted
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Mar 29 '23
What's the difference?
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u/ALittleAfraid2Ask Mar 29 '23 edited Mar 29 '23 •
Encryption is a reversible codification, hashes are not.
Edit: Plural correction.
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u/OverlyMintyMints Mar 29 '23
Yeah no shit Sherlock the bank has all your fucking money too dipshit
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u/OneHornyRhino Nice meme you got there Mar 29 '23
Man, now I feel bad that I'm too poor to give a gold award XD
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u/Unhappy_Archer9483 Mar 29 '23
If someone want to read the 10000 unread emails on that thing thing go ahead
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u/moparmesean Mar 29 '23
Seems like OP just learned that companies keep your data and the little 12 year old brain on OP is freaking out
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u/Tramnack Professional Dumbass Mar 29 '23
They don't know that multiple countries have access to nukes and that any one of them deciding to launch one would be the end of the world as we know it.
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u/cococamz Mar 29 '23
Wait so you mean to tell me that google somehow knows my gmail account? How in the world did they get that kind of information? Truly mind boggling
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u/nonosquare-exe can't meme Mar 29 '23
the government has everyone addresses and can leak at anytime. Time to overthrow
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u/The_Moxx Professional Dumbass 3d ago
yo sorry for being a dumbass. i was high af when i made this.
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u/GringoSwingo Mar 29 '23
This, also Meta terms of service is a shit. Downloading an app on a phone instantly gives Meta access to your phones storage. Tik Tok same.
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Mar 29 '23
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u/Tinted-Glass-2031 Mar 29 '23
Actually, the OP is about accounts and not passwords, so it's significantly less impactful than what I posted. I share my account name with garbage sites for free for a chance at raffles I never win...
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u/LazyZetsu Mar 29 '23
Wait until you hear about Microsoft cloud and how many people and companies have their email accounts and servers there.
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Mar 29 '23
And then no one would ever invest in them again, as investor confidence would drop to 0, and then they would close down
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u/Superb-Confidence-44 Pro Gamer Mar 29 '23
I don't know man. I just don't see how leaking some e-mails leads to catastrophic events. Most on there are bol.com order confirmation emails lol
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u/Ruby036 Mar 29 '23
Email service is different from entertainment platform. You trust Gmail with information in your email and you acknowledge it. If you don't trust Google, you can use another service or postal mail. It is different from your data being collected, analyzed and sent back to CCP while you are watching videos.
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u/Sir_Honytawk Tech Tips Mar 30 '23
If you don't trust Google, switching to an other service doesn't help.
Google has about 9 million IP addresses last I checked, and they make sure they get incorporated into everything just so they can scrape your data.
The only way you can go Google-less this day and age, is by living on a desert island.
And even then you probably still get captured on Google Earth.
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u/Loud_farting_panda Mar 29 '23
It's so good to be a nobody. I tell myself this all the time - why the fuck would gov. care about me when even my friends don't. Why would my government spie on me? There's not a single thing they would gain from it except maybe depressions.
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u/okaymandude Mar 29 '23
OP doesn't realize that every single business could just refuse to sell anything and that we would all starve to death if they did this! Humanity is doomed!!!!
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u/NapalmDesu Mar 29 '23
You usually are supposed to make fun of the wojak in this meme format. Thats actually op tho
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u/SiggeTheDog Mar 29 '23
What do you even have on your gmail that could ruin your life? I have nothing even remotely weird on any gmail I have.
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u/Vennris Mar 29 '23
Everyone knows that, edgelord.
Besides, it wouldn't really be catastrophic at all.
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u/__Lizbert Mar 29 '23
Doesn't thevsame go for any other mail provider/big tech like Apple and Microsoft?
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u/19DucksInAWolfSuit Mar 29 '23
You know Visa has millions of peoples' credit card numbers and if they released them it would be pretty bad too
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u/MauSanJ Mar 29 '23
If this almost impossible event scares you then you're gonna be happy with your chances at the lottery.
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u/Yionko Mar 29 '23
Like, i mean, i'm as normal as almost everyone so whut are the chances someone needs my mail
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Mar 29 '23
Oh no! They could leak the addresses! The damage would be akin to what the yellow pages did to phones!
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u/Working-Telephone-45 Mar 29 '23
Damn I better not send more email, when I do people can see my email and that is catastrophic
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bend749 Mar 29 '23
oh no , they will leak my email that i exclusively use for questionable porn sites ..
couldn't give any less fuck .
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u/KundaMarten Mar 29 '23
Omg, they can leak my WoW registrations, my online shopping orders and all of my "forgot password" emails. Nooooo!!!
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u/13thGuardian Mar 29 '23
Leaking my mailed ads from amazon, ubisoft, EA and etc will be catastrophic
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u/DarkHumorKnight Mar 29 '23
"Can you believe that the company that provides the biggest email service" (don’t quote me on that I didn’t check it) "knows the email address of the people they provide this service for?"
- This guy, apparently
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u/CosmoCosmos Mar 29 '23
And Paypal has access to millions of people's bank account information...There is a ton of critical information on servers all around the world, where it would be catastrophic if it got leaked/hacked, but that's, for the most part, not really under anyones control so why rack your brain about it
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u/Prestigious_Lock1659 Mar 29 '23
There are so many things online that would be catastrophic if they were leaked, email addresses isn’t one of them.
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Mar 29 '23
Microsoft is the one to worry about, you get someone’s account in 365 you get not only their emails but the whole tenant and everything shared or visible to that user
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u/averagemilkenjoyer_ Dark Mode Elitist Mar 29 '23
if you shit on everyone noone will notice other people's garbage since they would be to focused on their shit
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u/master-of-disgusting Meme Stealer Mar 29 '23
Every company with chunks of valuable data could leak them and cause damage… but why? Microsoft can also leak millions of cloud files. Same with apple. Most big tech companies can
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u/mrNOTfriendly Mar 29 '23
Im shuttering thinking about all that catastrophic damage that could be done if someone got ahold of my email address.
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u/mm2_gamer Tech Tips Mar 29 '23
OP doesn’t know most people aren’t serial killers and Google will get shut down the second this happens
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u/PBsFatBubbleGumPussy Mar 29 '23
"Oh no people now know that I, a nobody who uses a fake name for Google, watch incredibly benign nsfw shit online. My life is ruined."
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u/Isthmus11 Mar 29 '23
Wait until OP finds out about literally any hospital or doctors office and finds out how much actually damaging info they have lol
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u/coltRG Mar 29 '23
Go for it. The rest of the world can filter through my 80,000 spam emails for me
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u/Sir_Honytawk Tech Tips Mar 30 '23
Not just Google, anyone who gets access to their servers.
Malicious or not.
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u/Nikhilramesh_90 Professional Dumbass Mar 29 '23
Maybe coz Gmail literally means Google mail so ofc they'd have access to everyone's Gmail address...