• dch82@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Bruh, let’s say an attacker deleted all of my important documents, say book drafts, and assume I don’t have a backup.

    Now my progress has been set back six months and the publisher is angry.

    Would I care if they deleted my system files or not?

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Or, session cookies. They don’t need special privilege to access, and if you grab all of someone’s cookies, you can probably get some valid session cookies for logged in accounts just by checking for some common domains in one/by keyword.

      From there, it would be trivial to get into email, social media, and other accounts to do other things with.