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What would happen if Google and other search engines were hacked?
Posted on 5/14/15 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 5/14/15 at 10:39 pm
Imagine a day in the future where Google, Yahoo, Bing and others are hacked and that anyone in the world could type in your name (very far future) or your ip and find out every single thing you have searched etc. Many smarter people use a VPN, but even those are vulnerable.
I really believe that this will be a incredible problem in the future. Am i wrong?
Could we at some point be faced with a scenario where our names are tied with our internet traffic and thus if hacked could be searchable for anyone?
I really believe that this will be a incredible problem in the future. Am i wrong?
Could we at some point be faced with a scenario where our names are tied with our internet traffic and thus if hacked could be searchable for anyone?
This post was edited on 5/14/15 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 5/14/15 at 10:48 pm to flyAU
I just watched some FOX News and then came here to keep the apocalyptic feeling going
Posted on 5/14/15 at 10:58 pm to jeff5891
To be honest, if Google was hacked and millions of peoples search requests were in the hands of people that could put every person searches into a searchable site, it would be terrorism that would touch people on a personal level.
I do think this will happen. Also ISP's getting hacked and having a database of every site everyone has visited would also be devastating. I think this will happen some day.
The amount of depression, suicide, homicide, ruining of lives would far outweigh any terrorist attack you could think of
I do think this will happen. Also ISP's getting hacked and having a database of every site everyone has visited would also be devastating. I think this will happen some day.
The amount of depression, suicide, homicide, ruining of lives would far outweigh any terrorist attack you could think of
This post was edited on 5/14/15 at 11:02 pm
Posted on 5/14/15 at 11:04 pm to jeff5891
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I just watched some FOX News and then came here to keep the apocalyptic feeling going
I understand your sarcastic tone, but if you are on the tech board then you shoudl understand that the scenario i am talking about is a very real possibility.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 11:26 pm to flyAU
quote:Why would they need to be hacked? Packets are collected and warehoused. Snowden bro.
What would happen if Google and other search engines were hacked?
I guess you mean a free hack where everyone gets a glimpse before servers are shut down. I'm sure there's a DR contingency for that.
What people need to really worry about is having all of their "private" data sitting in some "cloud" that they don't control. Makes for good sync between devices, but if the cloud gets hacked - everything up there is free game. And they'll be quiet about it until they have it all.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 11:41 pm to drizztiger
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drizztiger
NSA is a complete beast unto itself. NSA being hacked for their data is less probable than a private company. Fact is that we all are getting indexed, logged and databased and it is a matter of time before someone gets the "wikileaks".
Posted on 5/15/15 at 12:07 am to flyAU
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NSA being hacked for their data is less probable than a private company.
Again... Why would they need to be hacked?
This information being in the NSA's hands is bad enough.
If there were one massive leak where everyone could see anyone's data, that might be a much bigger single event, but the overall impact would not actually be as bad, IMO.
Everyone getting exposed simultaneously would allow us to all see the skeletons in each others' closets, but I think we'd quickly get over all the dick pics and the realization that everyone seems to be into some kinky shite.
On the other hand, giving all this power to one single entity means everything remains a secret but people can be singled out, ridiculed, or blackmailed by the entity holding those secrets, for whatever reason that entity feels like. The fact that that entity is the government is even worse.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 4:23 am to flyAU
Not me.
Just a whole bunch of "random celebrity nude" searches.
Just a whole bunch of "random celebrity nude" searches.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 8:45 am to flyAU
I'm not saying Google is unhackable, but they consider all that personal data to be one of their main assets, they build their own infrastructure, computers, and OS. If any private company is going to keep that data safe it will be Google.
That being said it only takes one chink in the armor or disgruntled employee in the right position to make your fears come true, so the only real answer if you are concerned with this is to protect yourself. Make it harder for "them" to get a complete picture of you by using multiple services for things and don't tie into one service/ecosystem. Also use VPNs and secure search engines like startpage.com and duckduckgo.com
A breach like you're talking about where EVERYONE is exposed I think would lead to a nuclear response and wouldn't stay "publicly" available for too long. If you were important enough to have enemies sure they could get at it, but friends, family and employers would have to jump through quite a few hoops on the dark side of the net to get at it.
That being said it only takes one chink in the armor or disgruntled employee in the right position to make your fears come true, so the only real answer if you are concerned with this is to protect yourself. Make it harder for "them" to get a complete picture of you by using multiple services for things and don't tie into one service/ecosystem. Also use VPNs and secure search engines like startpage.com and duckduckgo.com
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Could we at some point be faced with a scenario where our names are tied with our internet traffic and thus if hacked could be searchable for anyone?
A breach like you're talking about where EVERYONE is exposed I think would lead to a nuclear response and wouldn't stay "publicly" available for too long. If you were important enough to have enemies sure they could get at it, but friends, family and employers would have to jump through quite a few hoops on the dark side of the net to get at it.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 11:51 am to flyAU
It happens that a coworker of mine who I've known for several years left our company last month to accept a technical position at Amazon. It occurred to me that he will likely be able to view my order history.
Posted on 5/15/15 at 12:06 pm to foshizzle
You're a fool if you don't get your lube and sex toys from Amazon.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 10:52 am to flyAU
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Many smarter people use a VPN, but even those are vulnerable.
I trust ISP firewalls tremendously more than most of the VPN groups out there. The majority of people using them are just covering tracks from their ISP.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:16 am to Hopeful Doc
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I trust ISP firewalls tremendously more than most of the VPN groups out there. The majority of people using them are just covering tracks from their ISP.
What do firewalls have to do with this? The advantage of VPNs here is being able to change your IP address at will and also sharing those IP addresses with other people.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:17 am to efrad
Does whoever is providing these IPs not keep a log of who they're assigning them to? I would imagine that they do and picture it tucked neatly inside their own network.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:28 am to Hopeful Doc
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Does whoever is providing these IPs not keep a log of who they're assigning them to? I would imagine that they do and picture it tucked neatly inside their own network.
Many anonymizing VPN services specifically advertise that they do not keep logs.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:35 am to efrad
Then my point is pretty pointless, assuming they are telling the truth.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 11:40 am to Hopeful Doc
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assuming they are telling the truth
The bigger issue here is the government sending the VPN service a National Security Letter demanding that they be allowed to install monitoring equipment on the network while keeping the company under a gag order. Which does happen.
Posted on 5/17/15 at 6:38 pm to efrad
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Everyone getting exposed simultaneously would allow us to all see the skeletons in each others' closets, but I think we'd quickly get over all the dick pics and the realization that everyone seems to be into some kinky shite.
Plus any one person would be a needle in a haystack.
I'm not sure how you would tie searches to a specific person anyway. Anyone doing an "embarrassing" search is going to look for an unsecured wifi if they're that worried about it. A lot of searches are done without logging in and are done on shared computers. Then you'd have searches where people were looking something up for business instead of personal reasons and that would further muddle the information you'd know from a search history (of course, most of those aren't particularly interesting anyway.)
Posted on 5/30/15 at 5:42 pm to flyAU
The future is here!
Just ran across this:
Massive Clinton-era Internet bug shows pitfalls of Obama's 'backdoor' proposal
A Clinton-era Internet law is coming back to haunt us by exposing our private online messages to hackers.
Now, the Obama administration is lobbying Congress to repeat the same policy all over again.
This week, computer researchers announced they found a massive weakness in Internet software.
"Logjam," as they called it, allows hackers to spy on your online communications.
It affects thousands of websites and every browser.
Logging into your email, bank or Facebook (FB, Tech30) on public Wi-Fi or over a virtual private network (VPN) isn't safe.
Every major Web browser has it (Google Chrome, Android, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari).
And 8% of the top million websites are vulnerable.
Just ran across this:
Massive Clinton-era Internet bug shows pitfalls of Obama's 'backdoor' proposal
A Clinton-era Internet law is coming back to haunt us by exposing our private online messages to hackers.
Now, the Obama administration is lobbying Congress to repeat the same policy all over again.
This week, computer researchers announced they found a massive weakness in Internet software.
"Logjam," as they called it, allows hackers to spy on your online communications.
It affects thousands of websites and every browser.
Logging into your email, bank or Facebook (FB, Tech30) on public Wi-Fi or over a virtual private network (VPN) isn't safe.
Every major Web browser has it (Google Chrome, Android, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari).
And 8% of the top million websites are vulnerable.
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