Comment by gruez
8 hours ago
Linkedin got users to unwittingly to share their entire contact list by signing into gmail. What makes you think something similar wouldn't happen to some non-technical person on the sales team?
8 hours ago
Linkedin got users to unwittingly to share their entire contact list by signing into gmail. What makes you think something similar wouldn't happen to some non-technical person on the sales team?
My point is I don't think one bit of this is accidental.
And my point is that it's pretty easy for people to accidentally do it, and this is corroborated by the available evidence, so we should apply hanlon's razor rather than assuming someone at browserstack was laughing maniacally while uploading the email list.
I made no such assertion. Only that businesses do things in the business's interest more frequently than databreaches.
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Hanlon's razor suggests that browserstack has made the conscious decision to use a vendor and share data with them. Companies of that size don't YOLO those things, that relationship and the data-sharing has passed through legal, they have a contract in place.
Don't assume businesses operate the same way some job-hunting person on monday morning is.