The State of Data Protection - Selected Gripes
I am near the end of an audit of 700 odd items in my passwords data base. I think the conclusions observations I have reached are sort of depressing:
- The passwordless era seems a long way out. Keypasses are in limited use.
- Far too many online services do not even have two factor authentication or similar, so that reinforces the question over the rollout of the passwordless era.
- Only a small minority of entities in my list allow a user invoked close account and delete all data.
- Too many sites have irksome features like user cannot change email address or no payment options beyond unadulterated exposing of credit card data.
- Almost always forcing the email to be the user name
I could add to this list, but all in all there's a lot of work to be done by those that hold our data and frankly I am surprised there have not been more data leaks around the world. The pace may go up a clip because the bad guys will use AI to more efficiently find the open gates and broken fences in the data security barriers.
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@green4parrot. I think the conclusions observations I have reached are sort of depressing"
Yep, you're right. I've seen the same things. It's a problem and annoying.
Sometimes it seems like this community and 1PW are the only folks serious about security. BUT, we just have to do what we can with what we have. Small comfort, I know, but--sadly--it's where we are. Thankfully, we have 1PW, so everyone here is at least that much safer.
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