I have a fairly common name, along with an uncle of the same name. I found a few others as well, and was thinking of visiting the business of one of us. Sadly, that Nacho passed away, so the plan is not going to happen, but at least we got a chuckle out of sending out the NYT obituary to various friends.
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
We do have personal numbers used for identification purposees, in my country we have the OIB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number... which superseded the JMBG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number
Countries don’t really want unique IDs per person, even though it would extremely simplify all administrative work, because: - How can spies have false identities, if you can account for every individual? - The only scalable way to get voters is not to make people switch to the opposite party, but to flood a country with people who will vote for you.
> Countries don’t really want unique IDs per person
Given the number is countries that already have those and those that attempt it every few years... I'd say it's not correct.
For spies, you just issue multiple identities - the origin country shouldn't have any issues with that part. It already happened for witness protection level stuff.
For voting... yeah, that's a citation needed. Politicians mostly worry about foreigners coming to vote.
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#143How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts? If I wanna check the internet for someone, I find it impossible because for a lot of names there's at least thousands of people with the same exact full name. It must give both a feeling of safety but also frustration if you may want to stand out.
> How do Chinese people deal with name conflicts? In a big company, there are often many people with the same name. some companies may add a numeric suffix to their name like abc1, abc2, abc3. We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts
> We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts
It's interesting how cultural differences can make some life algorithms hardly work in some countries. I sometimes use a method to find people from my past by googling their full name, switching to the image results, and spending a manageable amount of time scrolling through them until I find the person. I've successfully used this method several times. The images are usually related to job activities or social media profiles. However, from your description, this approach probably won't work in China for at least two reasons: too many raw results and few or no social media results.
UPDATE: a follow-up question. If in a big company two or more figures happen to have the same full name and need to be exposed publicly (on a site or promotional materials), are there any tricks for this?
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#144This is why we should replace names with uuids.
At the very least names should be unique strings, preferably pronouncable
You need to have a restricted set of allowed syllables to prevent attackers from having names with similar pronounciation to common ones.
In unique name world I would totally for a scammer telling me "Hello, my name is Marck Zuckaberg, give me all your data".
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
lol, if it's downvoted that's how you know americans did it, because people from other countries have no idea why SS number is important or what it is
Why, we got something similar in other countries. Here in NL it is called BSN; Burger Service Number (burger means civilian). I believe the civilian should be able to create identities based on their private key (which only the government knows ) and these should have different details. Like for example, a nickname, a realname, a telephone number, and address, or multiple of these. But then, also the civilian should…
> burger means civilian
I just realised this is probably the German etymological branch of "burgoise".
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#146Time for other Zuck to sort out his SSL.
Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for markzuckerberg.com.
The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.facebook.com, *.facebook.net, *.fbcdn.net, *.fbsbx.com, *.m.facebook.com, *.messenger.com, *.xx.fbcdn.net, *.xy.fbcdn.net, *.xz.fbcdn.net, facebook.com, messenger.com
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#148My name is so common that people laugh and say, "come on, what's your real name?" There are two of us in our little town. When the other one robbed a convenience store I started getting calls from friends who thought it was me. I also look like many people, to the point that I once told someone, "no, I'm really not your cousin."
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#149I once received a number of hateful mentions and DMs on Twitter because I share my name with a 60 Minutes Australia journalist who was the producer on a story about Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson's personal doctor). People really are that stupid.
I worked with a guy that shares the name with the Norwegian mass murderer who targeted children at a youth camp. I think had some pretty though years, but never changed his name.
I can't even imagine how you would go on with this name if you're living in europe as it guarantees instant recognition almost anywhere.
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#150Hey, this is one of those rare folks Facebook doesn't even know about!
https://medium.com/the-haven/5-people-facebook-doesnt-know-a...