Photo-sharing app Flickr is reporting a possible data breach after a vulnerability was found in a third-party email service provider. The incident impacts real names, email addresses, IP addresses, and account activity. There are virtually no other details at this time.
y tho
This information is the most practical information to have for the everage person. I dont think data breach roundups should be paywalled at all.
The info that is practical and applicable to all is already freely available on PG’s website with all the info already there about threat modeling and setting up and maintaining your OPSEC. When it is followed well, issues with data breaches are already mitigated if not eliminated. If your data is still breached, it is breached but not every price of info is going to be the same on other accounts if you are compartmentalizing your PIIs with alias emails and VOIP numbers.
PG already provides enough value for free.
Maybe so.
But another point is that the purpose of data breaches is to inform the public. Making it paywalled just seems counter to that.
For and from the companies yes. For PG, I don’t think so. But that’s a personal view.
Why do you think so lol
What perk does it bring to subscribers if it isn’t supposed to be informational for the general public? If that is its perk, then making it subscribers only is as I said: counter to its purpose. Compare this to the subscriber perk of priority QnA, which makes sense because it’s conceptually exclusive.
I don’t think it’s a big issue right now. Im wondering if it was intentional in the first place at all, since only like two or three out of all are paywalled.
Its interesting to note that there is technically a free tier subscription, so its possible that this is not actually paywalled. But i can’t say for certain since I don’t have a subscription account.
If it is paywalled for paying members, see my continued response above. If it’s only locked behind the free tier, I still think it’s weird because it’s just locking information behind a platform with a tier that’s already free. T_T
seems like if this is going to be for subscribers only, it should not be posted in general. This is basically spam (or just a weekly ad to subscribe, which is kind of worse) for everyone else. Isn’t there a subscribers only forum catagory for content for subscribers?
@anonymous544 there are some decent alternatives. https://www.dbdigest.com/ has a pretty good feed and its more up to date then these roundups.
I do think its a bit odd to paywall content Privacy Guides did not even create themselves but, everyone has to get their nut somehow these days.
There is always Techlore providing this for free as always.