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walrus01 • today at 9:47 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Is it bad that taking a look at the homepage: https://www.zamzar.com/

My first thought was "imagine the astonishing amount of private documents and PII you could collect and store if you ran something like this for free as a honeypot". People just blithely uploading any document from their personal data to convert to another format.

And if I would have to guess it's less technical users who aren't going to try something like opening a document in the latest Libreoffice (or gimp, etc) and then exporting it to another format, using local software on their computer, first.


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oxedom • today at 11:01 AM

I know for a fact that these honeypots exist.

sevenzero • today at 10:50 AM

Well this is what people do with AI. Uploading their whole life with no second thought. But surely we can trust big tech, right?