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Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by avhception »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #182
squigz wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Fair 'nuff. Certainly not something I feel like dedicating any time to researching. I suspect that the number of folks that need bodyguards, but can't hire them, is nonzero.

It definitely is. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drachenlord Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an English version of the article. Maybe auto translate will get the gist across.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by mysterydip »

bertil wrote: post #115

A 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 once worked at a company whose lawyer shared the same first and last name. Rarely I would get an email and then a "please don't read that, delete immediately" afterwards.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by withinboredom »

layer8 wrote: post #215
chtitux wrote: post #189

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I strongly suggest UUIDv7, with our birthdate encoded as time. Ordering the world population by birthday becomes so easy. Plus no endless discussion on wether or not we should use UUID as primary key.

People wouldn’t be fond of their name divulging exactly how old they are.

I mean, it’s not hard to guess how old people are…

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Post by mr_toad »

mFixman wrote: post #145
Fnoord wrote: post #93

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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".

Bourgeoisie or Burgher in English, Bourgeois in French or in German Bürger, all from old Frankish burg, for town. English has both words, but they now have different meanings, and the term Burgher is mostly obsolete.

The divide (or perception of a divide) between city dwellers and the country is not something the US invented, these divisions predate the colonisation of America.

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Post by citizenkeen »

bonzini wrote: post #211
rkomorn wrote: post #164

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My spouse suffers from this as well. It's bananas to me how many people use that email address clearly thinking it's theirs.

I have myname.wifename@gmail.com (we use it for bills, children activities, and other family stuff where you can't register more than one email address). Neither of our names can be confused with a last name and yet I had multiple people writing to it incorrectly, including: as the email attached to a Diners credit card (I called Diners and they asked me what's the right one and "if I don't know the right one how do…

Your use case is why I bought my own domain name. My wife and I create shared aliases we can both send from. It’s made spousal ensuing with schools so much easier, etc.

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Post by giancarlostoro »

zukzuk wrote: post #166
bertil wrote: post #115

A 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 have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc. I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a sim…

I have met someone with my last name, if its not hyphenated, which mine is. My name is as unique as it gets with hyphenating. I never use my hyphenated name anywhere other than 100% legal stuff.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by giancarlostoro »

catoc wrote: post #180
baubino wrote: post #160

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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

If you reread again it sounds as if the secretary was hanging out the wrong email.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by giancarlostoro »

catoc wrote: post #213
basilgohar wrote: post #209

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Gmail can be fetched via IMAP and leave Gmail's infra entirely. And I don't think Google guarantees that their implementation stays fully on their own owned infra. It's a reasonable assumption but I'd never trust that for a security guarantee. Email is not an end-to-end secure data protocol without the use of client side encryption/decryption like PGP/GPG, but even then, sender/receiver and time are all in the envelo…

Yeah, that exactly my point - no idea why I’m being downvoted on this

Probably because Law Firms arent necessarily computer security firms. Lots of people have terrible op sec. Additionally if you the recipient are on gmail it stops mattering, now Google knows your legal woes.

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Post by notahacker »

zukzuk wrote: post #166
bertil wrote: post #115

A 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 have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc. I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a sim…

I have a sufficiently uncommon last name to be able to figure out which branch of the family the misdirected emails are meant for. Was quite nice getting updates from the chip shop we used to get fish and chips from when we went to visit grandma, intended for someone who afaik I never met.
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