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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Selling fear: Marketing for cybersecurity products often leaves consumers less secure (theconversation.com)

submitted 1 month ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

This might also apply to many news article for software vulnerabilities.

If it's not a 0day, a patch is already available. So users shouldn't do anything particular if there's (semi)automatic update, which is the case for Win, iOS, and many Linux distributions.

It's worth people's attention if it's a critical 0day where user need to mitigate manually, or if users need to update manually due to lack of auto update.