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That doesn't do much to protect you against a website storing government mandated passport information. The only protection there would be if authorities stop demanding that everyone takes copies of personal IDs.
Yeah, when did that become acceptable?! I've had a bunch of sites request a photo or scan of my state-issued driver's license, like that's just OK to ask people to send to them.
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That doesn't do much to protect you against a website storing government mandated passport information. The only protection there would be if authorities stop demanding that everyone takes copies of personal IDs.
Yeah, when did that become acceptable?! I've had a bunch of sites request a photo or scan of my state-issued driver's license, like that's just OK to ask people to send to them.
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Probably getting downvoted because somehow this is still a politicized issue :/
There is a certain strain of discourse that goes "what? me politics?", getting upset when their obviously politically charged just-asking-questions narrative is called out as such. Concerning at best, antisocial at worst.
Getting personal info leaked because one was coerced into taking a test is a completely valid discussion, without getting offended. This is the final days of civilization we're seeing, the idiocracy is here and there's no turning back.
During the height of COVID, I was exploring the API design of the top-selling COVID tests on Amazon. Several had wildly unsecured APIs—sequential patient IDs but the results endpoint assumed knowing the “secret” patient ID counted as auth. Or just completely open GraphQL implementations, no different than a password-less db… For anyone considering DIYing a diagnostics program, don’t. But I’m biased (I’m the founder o…
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Yeah, when did that become acceptable?! I've had a bunch of sites request a photo or scan of my state-issued driver's license, like that's just OK to ask people to send to them.
Banks KYC practices normalized this.
It's silly. AT&T wanted it from me to add a phone on a business account that was shipping to our physical address, which has not ever changed since the account was opened. eBay wanted it (and my SSN! and my wife's!) despite our account being a business account registered with an EIN and connected to a business bank account. Instagram/Facebook/Meta/whatever wanted it to reactivate a dormant account that talked to a still-valid email address to which I had access.
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1. Consider the pandemic response an international hysteria specifically engineered by the global elite to move as much real value up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. 2. Don’t consider the Dutch to be any different. 3. Bingo. The Dutch fit into the diatribe. I don’t understand why you think this would somehow be difficult to contend with.
difficult isn't the word as opposed to "hilarious", "waste of energy", "deaf ears", "lack of focus on what can be controlled"
I'm making no judgement on whether that approach was a net positive or negative here, but the writing was on the wall from day 1 with regards to data security.
Additionally, connecting devices to the internet directly or indirectly should have the same sorts of responsibilities.
Is anyone actually surprised? Everything was thrown together in a huge hurry and governments were playing fast and loose with laws and regulations. I'm making no judgement on whether that approach was a net positive or negative here, but the writing was on the wall from day 1 with regards to data security.