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23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits (www.wired.com)
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23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits::Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more.

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[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think they should have been required to do so.

Did you miss the part where our government can't even pass a budget, but you're expecting them to pass laws like this?

Also, IP spoofing exists and is relatively easy.

[โ€“] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago

You can't spoof your IP address because of the TCP handshake. You could proxy your traffic to appear from coming from a different IP address than from the computers making the requests. This would still be identified as suspicious because the proxy IP address would differ from an IP address a user had logged in from before.

Even if the "hackers" knew every user's IP address, they would not be able to establish a connection with it appearing from an IP address that didn't really initiate the traffic.