> According to haveibeenpwnd, the email address I've used since gmail was invite-only is in at least 39 data breaches.

This is a stupid nihilistic take. Gmail hasn't been breached that many times. Your original credentials from the first breach were passed around from black market to other black market and were repackaged. They didn't get your newest password 39 different times. The black markets are a lot like middle quality data brokers -- they don't actually care if their data is the most accurate or up-to-date.

If your credit profile was completely hovered, that's another story. Credit bureaus are simply a knowledge database and are a massive liability. But my credit hasn't been similarly destroyed so there is likely another major variable between our risk profiles. Maybe your physical mailbox has been breached multiple times.

Security hygiene is a lot like physical hygiene. You just need a few rules and you are mostly good. Don't sleep around too much, choose your partners wisely, and use protection when you do find a new partner until you both trust each other enough.

As it pertains to Meta, nobody should trust this company after what they did with iOS contacts on the original Facebook app.

And nobody needs to use Muse. You aren't opting out of society on a Unabomber level if you choose not to use this one AI agent app by a less than trustworthy company.

The person you are replying to never said Gmail was breached 39 times, they said their email was in 39 different data breaches, meaning 39 different sites where they used an email login were breached.

What is your point with this, are you saying it isn't a problem? It sounds like it ruined your life almost!

I think the point is, even if you attempt to do everything securely, someone along the chain will mess up.

Look at the Equifax breach - most of the US SSN's, addresses, & more released, and they get a little slap on the wrist and continue doing business. I was in there, I never signed up for equifax, I signed up for companies that signed up with equifax.

That said, it is still a slippery slope argument, just because there will be more data breaches, doesn't mean we should give everything out freely and just give up.