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Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops (www.404media.co)

submitted 5 months ago by overflow64@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure they do, likely have their own internal security team as well as contract security work out. The purpose of hiring hackers isn't to make the company unhackable, it's to make it harder, more time consuming and costly to hack the company.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Aiming for a future in IT security, I find this branch of computer science somewhat ironic. You basically work to make your future work harder, i.e. you make things more secure, making your job of finding vulnerabilities even more difficult. Still a sucker for it, though