Avast collected data on location, health concerns, and more.
Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine after it was caught storing and selling customer information without their consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the fine on Thursday and said that it’s banning Avast from selling user data for advertising purposes.
Lashing out =/= defending myself and refusing to put up with your bullshit. I said why I don’t use password managers and you enter the conversation being a sarcastic asshole. I don’t have to put up with that, call it lashing out or whatever the fuck you want but if you can’t handle the heat then stay out of the kitchen. Now fuck off already.
You arrogantly said why you don’t use password managers and I pointed out how your premise is incorrect and there’s data to prove it; like this report from two years ago that cracking an encrypted password vault is orders of magnitude harder than cracking a password you can actually remember, or a report from a year and a half ago that not using one makes you three times more likely to experience identity theft. I pointed this out sarcastically, because you gave your opinion arrogantly. Since then, and since you’ve reacted with such anger and vitriol, I’ve turned the sarcasm down. I’m sorry that I hurt you with that joking response at the start.
But I’m not going to stop fact checking you in this thread because I don’t want someone else seeing this and thinking that our positions are equally based on fact. They’re not. You have a feeling; I have facts.
If you want me to stop, then stop posting misinformation.
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Lashing out =/= defending myself and refusing to put up with your bullshit. I said why I don’t use password managers and you enter the conversation being a sarcastic asshole. I don’t have to put up with that, call it lashing out or whatever the fuck you want but if you can’t handle the heat then stay out of the kitchen. Now fuck off already.
You arrogantly said why you don’t use password managers and I pointed out how your premise is incorrect and there’s data to prove it; like this report from two years ago that cracking an encrypted password vault is orders of magnitude harder than cracking a password you can actually remember, or a report from a year and a half ago that not using one makes you three times more likely to experience identity theft. I pointed this out sarcastically, because you gave your opinion arrogantly. Since then, and since you’ve reacted with such anger and vitriol, I’ve turned the sarcasm down. I’m sorry that I hurt you with that joking response at the start.
But I’m not going to stop fact checking you in this thread because I don’t want someone else seeing this and thinking that our positions are equally based on fact. They’re not. You have a feeling; I have facts.
If you want me to stop, then stop posting misinformation.