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Also checked: if you pay for their backup service, nobody can delete the backups, so those backups are even safe if compromised.
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Story time: I have been trying for 3 years to figure out what I wanted to hint at with "If it's not this one then it's the other one" as a secret question. I thought I was a clever boy not choosing the usual predetermined "what's your mother's name ?".
perhaps it's one of the two "throwaway" passwords you were using at the time?
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Maybe it's time for Amazon to decouple AWS accounts from Amazon shopping accounts.
I think you can do that yourself, although it probably means that you need two credit cards.
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Did you read the article? I ask because one of the problems was a compromised email account.
I did. It doesn't change anything, email is still a way better verification method than ID scans that the company will be unable to authenticate.
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I did. It doesn't change anything, email is still a way better verification method than ID scans that the company will be unable to authenticate.
unless your email account has been compromised.
An attacker can't just pretend to be able to read your email, such ability is too easy to conclusively prove. To be able to read your email they need to hack you somehow.
But for a fake ID the attacker only needs to throw your name in a PSD and they're good to go.
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My hobby: role-playing how I would respond as the CEO if my company was getting skewered on HN. Here is my version! --- Disclaimer: I'm [not] CIO @ Namecheap We messed up, big time. While we handle 1000s of live chat sessions everyday without issue, I realize that even one breakdown in security protocol can cause huge problems and a loss of trust for our customers. In response to this isolated case (in which our esta…
That's impressive, can you teach me to write like you?