Just as it says in the title. All these companies offering ‘privacy’ and ‘security’ services when they can’t even keep their own shit secure. At the end of the day, the only chance we have at keeping private and secure is by handling our own data and avoiding all these companies entirely, and hope they all eventually disappear in bankruptcy hell.
Funny how this company is also a ‘sponsor’ for Have I Been Pwned, yet they are evidently just using that to market themselves to privacy conscious people by having their brand on the site.
These companies never cease to amaze me, and this causes me to trust Have I Been Pwned a bit less in terms of their marketed philosophy vs what they actually are.
I’m just ranting here, because I’m getting increasingly tired of all this shit. Sorry for that.
I self host everything except email but how do you keep your credit report private? How do you keep your email completely private given it’s use is to send to other people?
I didn’t know what Aura was until writing this. They are a company that notifies you if credit card was stolen or other identity theft has happened. That’s already public. Your email is already public.
That’s not all they do. They sell security, according to them. If they can’t secure their own shit, how are they going to secure yours? That’s my point. Like you, I self host everything, and I’m well aware that some things are close to impossible to keep private, but giving more of your information to companies that swear they can keep you secure, knowing that there’s a 90%+ chance they will just be another company selling your data while charging you monthly for a completely useless ‘service’ swearing what they do is the complete opposite is exactly why the world is so fucked right now. People need to start doing research or pay the consequences. But it’s worse than that. Because so many fucking idiots resort to shit companies like this one (can’t be bothered to let go of some convenience) the ones that really put some effort into trying to make things better get hit with all this shit, because we are way less than the normies. And yeah, it’s a fucking rant, the more this shit happens the less I respect fucking normies. This has led me to a life where only my immediate family matter now, and maybe a few friends. Everyone else, they can drown in all the crap they choose to put up with for a bit more temporary convenience in their current life, while willfully avoiding looking at the reality of where this is taking all of us. We the few are being royally fucked because the many just won’t move. And I’m not naive enough to believe this is not the way of this world, it is, but I refuse to participate as much as possible. I have enough money tk last me the rest of my life, don’t have to worry about anything, so I have no use for any of what is being sold out there. House is completely paid for, I’m basically removed entirely from my country’s financial system, keep 2 international credit cards from another country for when I travel, and use cash as much as possible. This rant comes from how tired I am of just seeing people complaining about all that is happening while refusing to accept responsibility for enabling this kind of crap. You don’t want your data out there? Easy, research the companies and brands you use, and if they don’t match your philosophy, fucking drop them. ‘Windows is so fucked up, now I have to buy a new expensive laptop for windows 11’. In what sane mind does that make any sense? No, the logical path is, and will always be, ‘windows is so fucked up, so fuck Microsoft, they will never see my money again’.
Now that I’ve let it all out, pissed off a shitload of people, let the fucking hate begin, see if I give a fuck.
The security is monitoring your public records. Could you link to any of their services that aren’t about public records like titles, credit cards, credit ratings? Because that’s all I saw on their website.
There’s another company named aura that appears to be completely unrelated that provides security services in Malaysia- like physical guards for your business.
I get the idea of mocking security companies that get hacked. But this is a bad example. All their data was already public.
It would be like being mad at Lemmy because your username jjlinux and all your posts got “hacked” and posted to the Internet.