On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 08:59:00PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote: > But there is a simple solution. Lie! Lie strongly and continuously.
I strongly endorse this, doubly so given that the companies insisting on pointlessly collecting all this private information are the same companies that are staffed by miserably incompetent CIOs/CTOs/CSOs and have no possible chance of keeping it secure. I've been doing this for decades, and it's been quite instructive to note which companies have leaked which information, often without publicly acknowledging a security breach/dataloss incident. (Of course it's possible they have no idea that such an incident has occurred or that someone inside is doing a little freelancing using customer data.) And regardless of which company is involved, *under no circumstances* should anyone ever provide a truthful answer to security questions (e.g. "What was your first car?"). Every answer to every question at every site should be different and every one of them should be wrong. ---rsk
