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Comment by csomar

This is horrible. So right now, in order to get access to data for a certain person, you need to hack your way through a few of the potential services he is using and drive from there.

1. The data might have things like IDs (ie: Crypto exchanges).

2. You can use that data to ask for more data. If you got a copy of his passport, now you can ask for more with this new piece.

3. Looks like some people still store passwords in plain text or don't mind exchanging that over email. This means some of these service might reveal a password to you.

4. With that, you can start hacking into other accounts. You also have loads of knowledge about the person, so you might be able to guess his password.

5. Now you have access to his email, dropbox, banking details and maybe even lock him out.

Right about time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

parent csomar 7 years ago

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