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0 pointspeteretep11y ago0 comments

    > but given data that you can personally verify

But of course, you can't.

If I have your browsing history, and it's clean, I can threaten to throw in some random unpleasant links, and still threaten to release it as "credible looking". If I have your browsing history, and it's dirty, and I do release it, you can just claim I have tainted it as part of a blackmail attempt.

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greendestiny11y ago· 2 in thread

Presumably they can't verify it, but I feel like real data would be much more likely to convert to 'sale'. Besides if that's the particular strategy the site takes then it may well develop a reputation for reliability in some sort of way.

peteretepOP11y ago

My point is: you will always have the plausible deniability that the blackmailer has simply invented dirty data, and mixed it with real clean data

greendestiny11y ago

I understand and I agree. My point is just that sites make money with fake claims of viruses on your computer - I think real browsing history would scare the money out of enough unsophisticated people to make it profitable.

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