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AT&T says hackers accessed records of calls and texts for nearly all its cellular customers (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 41 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Hackers in this case likely means someone who can read a url and increment a number and is curious. Which ought to be everyone over the age of about 7.

Congratulations! Everyone is now a hacker!

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I trust the hackers more then companies these days. The companies steal everything with immunity

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

By the people, for the people ✊

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 0 points 4 months ago

Yeah, most effective illegal hackers are working for intelligence agencies or criminal organizations. The legal ones work for companies.

The ones "for the people" are very few.

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