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Moreover, the expert insists on the terms: here it’s more about privacy; than cybersecurity. “Your bank, for example, protects your private data but is not to be trusted. safe from security issues. Conversely, you may have a site that discloses your private data, but is shielded. in terms of security.
Messages stored and processed
On the side from Mastodon, its privacy policy reads: “All messages are stored and processed on the server. […] Please keep Keep in mind that server operators and any receiving server can see these messages, and recipients can capture, copy, or otherwise share them. Do not share any sensitive information about Mastodon”. Bottom line: don’t share everything, not all data will be completely protected.
However, the social network promises to protect the information of its users. “Your password has been hashed. to using a powerful one-way algorithm. You can enable authentication at any time. two factors to further secure access to account,” explains in particular the privacy policy; of Mastodon.
A small security lock
In reality, social networks have always used the lowest level of security, according to Florence Sèdes who compares them to locks. “As with the locks of the Canal du Midi, it’s the lowest level of flow that determines the flow of the whole, it’s the same for the networks. This is the lowest level of security. of all these servers which will set a level of security.”
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Other social networks have even wanted to go further by installing full encryption of messages, making it impossible to read them. The method is already installed on WhatsApp and could arrive on Facebook Messenger in 2023, explains Numericals. But Twitter is also said to be thinking about it (if it doesn’t die by then).
Don’t share everything
However, for Florence Sèdes, the problem of privacy is not only found in the protection of data, but also in the information left by the Internet user, without his realizing it. “You expose things, you think they remain in your private domain. Except that this information is never destroyed, there are always copies,” the future more education on this issue.
It therefore invites users, on all types of social networks combined, to be vigilant about the passwords used… but also to the information disclosed to the general public which could make it possible to find these passwords (the name of your dog for example). And Florence Sèdes recalls: “In the field of cybersecurity, we realize that very often the problem is the human link”.