This is why we should replace names with uuids.
Everyone should get their own emoji that looks just like them.
My parents had me done one for my first ID card! They called it "a photo".
I Am Mark Zuckerberg
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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…
> on their private key (which only the government knows)
What? Why?
How is a key private if the government (which belongs to the public) can read/edit/use it?
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
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#174A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents. At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. A…
My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for. Thankfully these people were working mostly through physical meetings and calls, so no sensitive info was leaked, but I did get calendar invites to discuss the future of entire countries as an engineering intern. I used the name a couple times to set up our internal meetings in the fancier u…
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#175Earlier 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 which superseded the JMBG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number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.
Biometrics have made it very hard for spies to have many different identities.
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#176Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. On a more serious note, I really feel for the people that cannot get any kind of support and try to get some help by messaging "the owner" of the social network they are in. With big companies, you used to be able to get someone to talk to you when you had a problem. Not anymore. The best you can get is a well trained LLM
What do you think happens today if you mail a letter addressed to the CEO of a big company (or their office)?
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
With the Internet, you can now be famous, without being rich. Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous. The billionaires you read about are really just the tip of the iceberg.
Rich is relative. Famous YouTubers/streamers/etc making even a few hundred thousand a year would be considered rich by much of the world.
Yup, but the number of "influencers," even making six digits, is small.
A couple months ago, I was at a stoplight, and this kid in an old beater was in the left-turn lane, to my left.
He had a steadycam rig in the passenger seat, and was nattering on about something.
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#178A friend of mine has a relatively common first name and last name, and she regularly gets mail that is clearly not meant for her. She started a Facebook group for homonyms to help her route mail, and it now have a hundred members and have helped people get important documents. At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. A…
I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com At some point the head of a national hospital thought he had that address and wasn't using his official email for everything, I got several emails that should not have been for me and some were quiet sensitive, I always emailed back the sender to let them know and eventually I emailed his secretary as it kept happening. I've also received purchase order confirm…
I have a canonical gmail address for what I thought was not such a common name pair. I get so much sensitive stuff. I used to email the sender but I have given up. One of them runs a business and the businesses that interact with his business just keep emailing me. Or stop for a couple of years, change personnel and start right back up.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rich is relative. Famous YouTubers/streamers/etc making even a few hundred thousand a year would be considered rich by much of the world.
Yup, but the number of "influencers," even making six digits, is small. A couple months ago, I was at a stoplight, and this kid in an old beater was in the left-turn lane, to my left. He had a steadycam rig in the passenger seat, and was nattering on about something.
We would need to define "famous", because just because someone has a steady cam doesn't mean they're famous :P I would think the amount of "famous" "influencers" making that much is a much higher percentage.
Outside of that Twitch leak some years ago, is there any reliable data on how much content creators make?
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com At some point the head of a national hospital thought he had that address and wasn't using his official email for everything, I got several emails that should not have been for me and some were quiet sensitive, I always emailed back the sender to let them know and eventually I emailed his secretary as it kept happening. I've also received purchase order confirm…
I’m in the midst of a similar situation. My firstinitial.lastname email keeps getting very sensitive legal documents from law firms handling the case of someone who does not seem to know what their actual email address is. I called the firm and told them they needed to have an in-person meeting with their client and get a correct email address from them. That seemed to help for a few months. But now I’m getting email…
Law firms that send very sensitive legal documents over email… #sigh
I’d switch firms immediately if that’s their level of opsec awareness