Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

It only takes them screwing up once for them to send my PII data.

"Oops, we accidentally included ~.ssh"



Objectively speaking, how valuable would that information be if it were to be leaked? Random weekly aggregated and sampled machine data associated to random IPs that in most cases would no longer be yours (and that’s in the worst case that both servers were compromised or misused by an employee during a specific time window, because IP is not stored in the analytics server but temporally in a proxy to prevent abuse).

I don’t know, I’m all for privacy but people get passionate too easily the moment someone even mentions the word telemetry and I think we should focus on actual privacy issues, like analytics in the context of ads, social networks (tiktok, fb, ig…), etc.




Consider applying for YC's Winter 2027 batch! Applications are open till November 2.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: