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mr_lebowski

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25. Pretty much ... it's one thing to break into people's accounts that happen to be cloud-based ...

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #9)

Sat Dec 26, 2020, 01:21 PM

Dec 2020

And something entirely different to break into the actual 'cloud' i.e. the servers themselves, such that one could move from account to account, stealing things.

Accounts will always be hacked, nothing you can do about that (although insisting on 2-step authentication goes a long way, some people and companies decide it's not worth the inconvenience).

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