• gnygnygny@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    When Real-Time Bidding allows foreign states and non-state actors to obtain compromising sensitive personal data about key European personnel and leaders to get location data, time-stamps, websites and apps activities; switching to a local messaging service appears to be a weak patch. You can get an overview of the actual situation here : https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/europes-hidden-security-crisis/

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      11 months ago

      appears to be a weak patch.

      It’s not a patch. It’s eliminating an attack vector, and the one which is more pervasive and easier to exploit.

      Security-minded people pay far more attention to what software you run than what hardware you have.