Firefox’s ARG move and Netflix’s analytics tweet this week spark really intriguing privacy discussions about the operators of products that have become integral to our daily lives recklessly playing with them.
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Replying to @hacks4pancakes
I have to ask, the tweet I saw from Netflix looked like just a random (intended to be funny) comment with very little likely hood of actual fact behind it. Did I miss something?
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Replying to @sqlstudent144
I would not be surprised if they had that data easily accessible and discussed it. Any half decent network security team would.
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Replying to @hacks4pancakes
Sure, but the person handling the twitter account would probably not be in the network security team. They'd be in marketing or something & most likely not have access.
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Replying to @sqlstudent144 @hacks4pancakes
That's why it's concerning. It suggests that there's no company-internal access control for access to this kind of information.
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Replying to @RichFelker @hacks4pancakes
I still don't see it. How does a humorous comment with (probably) no fact behind it become an indication of anything?
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Replying to @sqlstudent144 @hacks4pancakes
It might not be. The point is we can't know. But the comment provokes the question and probably (in a sense that I feel we'd find this if we had sufficient data) increases the chances that there really is a problem.
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Even if the chance is the same, the perception changes. Joking about something you shouldn't have access to, but plausibly could if you or someone else was abusing privilege, is not funny.
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