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Denying access to some repo where you spent x hours on which can be resolved by them paying you y dollars * x hours. And then hoping a lawyer takes pitty on you and restores the account?
I'm perpetually worried (and partially prepared) for this sort of scenario, as more of my accounts require 2FA. I dread the day I lose or break my phone, have my items stolen, there's a weather disaster etc. I try to make my hobby repos public and/or backed up in multiple places as a hedge.
Don't you have a 2FA Recovery Code?
I wonder if you can make a creative small claims court claim against them. Denying access to some repo where you spent x hours on which can be resolved by them paying you y dollars * x hours. And then hoping a lawyer takes pitty on you and restores the account?
I've been thinking about how they could solve this, since they accept payments; wouldn't it be possible to request a payment with a specific reference code to verify the identity? Paired with any other required identification process, documentation, etc.
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There is, but it's not a phone number I have access to anymore. I changed it to the said person's phone number before I surrendered so that this exact scenario did not happen. I trusted the wrong person.
Seems like you could present this evidence to the police for an identity theft charge against the "wrong person." Or you could threaten to do so, and perhaps regain your property.
Accusing somebody of theft? Perhaps the police would side with the non-felon..
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You sound paranoid and schizophrenic you should honestly try explaining your situation to someone you know or a professional. I think you’ll realize that your thinking is a bit delusional. I can’t really understand what you’re saying here.
Don't do this. We don't diagnose people on HN. Just flag the comment and move on, or, if you're worried, mail hn@yc. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (I'm not a mod, just someone who cares a lot about this particular rule.)
Right up your alley, I've actually written a cryptographic case study of some of the dynamics of this, I've just sent you a copy of it (you and I were in touch before - it was very well reviewed by professional cryptographers.) In your reply to this, please acknowledge your receipt of my email, and if you can, print it out as well, as it can become inaccessible later.
Of course, there are a lot of NSA-affiliated people who could come out of the woodworks to support parent's slander that I "sound paranoid and schizophrenic".
The reason they don't? They're witnesses in the FBI case and don't want to go to prison themselves. The FBI has already handwritten over 10,000 affidavits in this case. (They are writing by hand to avoid electronic tampering with evidence.)
I am not making a media story about it yet, which would be the next step, so there are no articles about this yet.
My reason for not doing so is not to bring extra attention to the case, but simply to solve it in a straightforward and expedient manner.
Lost access to my phone, then went to Tarrant County jail awaiting trail (innocent until proven guilty but $250,000 bond where no humans or property harmed), and only was able to get a few G-M-@-1-L related accounts reset following a plea bargain to get back my freedom. Lots of corpses in that system. IYKYK.
What can you do? Ask nicely. Hope to escalate. First off though, think of Jack Handey...
If you lost your keys in lava, man, let 'em go, they're gone.
I'm perpetually worried (and partially prepared) for this sort of scenario, as more of my accounts require 2FA. I dread the day I lose or break my phone, have my items stolen, there's a weather disaster etc. I try to make my hobby repos public and/or backed up in multiple places as a hedge.
It's not that hard, and you feel like a proper spy doing it ;)
unfortunately, the techniques you are trying in order to get access to a dormant Github account are EXACTLY the same ones that github gets spammed with every day by bad actors attempting supply chain attacks. You don't have anything that proves your identity any more than any rando on the internet in Github's eyes at least. Everything you have presented here may be convincing enough to me, but probably not to GitHub'…
But if the right GitHub account is compromised, we could see massive supply chain issues. Or a big important web service with millions of users affected.
The downside of making a wrong call here is just really really big.
There are real businesses being deployed from GitHub.
I'm perpetually worried (and partially prepared) for this sort of scenario, as more of my accounts require 2FA. I dread the day I lose or break my phone, have my items stolen, there's a weather disaster etc. I try to make my hobby repos public and/or backed up in multiple places as a hedge.
Yubikey in a safe deposit box is about as good as we can get, at least for the services that allow it.