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The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by layer8 »

darkhorn wrote: post #96
areoform wrote: post #2

Something like this happened to me and it has cost me $20k+ over time, https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded... Mercury unblocked my accounts because their founder is a very kind man who bothered to verify what the document actually says rather than falling back to, "Computer says no." But everywhere else? De nada. Computer says no. And it's not even me. It's a fuzzy match with someone in their…

May be you need to change your name to something unique like Ackfknetce. That will be cheaper.

Until Trump tweets it by mistake.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by layer8 »

p-e-w wrote: post #20
kazinator wrote: post #4

You can't seriously match people on first and last name and claim "fully matched". Think of how manny John Smiths there are? How can this be the company started by Wozniak and Jobs ...

You’re presenting this like a mistake born out of incompetence. It isn’t. The institutions involved simply don’t care whether they are destroying the lives of random people. At all. And why should they? They are completely unaccountable in practice, sometimes even in theory.

I think he’s presenting it as the shortcoming of not caring.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by trollbridge »

larsnystrom wrote: post #34
neximo64 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not as if it even helps since the numbers can be leaked and stolen and then abused & the situation ends up even worse since it is so centralised.

You’re talking about different things. Sweden has personal identity numbers and they’re public information. It protects you from being mixed up with someone with the same name. Not from identity theft though.

Making them explicitly public is better than the US situation where they’re treated like a password - a password you can’t change if it gets disclosed, and that lots of people feel entitled to get.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by Peacefulz »

hdgvhicv wrote: post #106
Peacefulz wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suggest exporting your password manager && your topt keychain onto an encrypted flash drive. I went through the horrors of having a phone die on me after migrating my topt to a local solution. Having a valid login cookie on bitwarden on my laptop was the only thing that saved me.

And that post is why sms is superior. You vans I may be able to manage a backup and understand how these codes are generated. The average person does not. From memory most totp apps don’t even migrate when you move from one phone to another - at least on iPhone. I haven’t done that for 5 years but I seem to remember having to create new entries.

I've moved between three managers in the past two years and all of them supported importing and exporting your full lists. That could be a recent development, though. I admit, I haven't used an apple product in a long time, so you could be right. I don't trust SMS, because I don't trust cleartext over the air. Too many people have too much time on their hands and information is too readily available.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by duskdozer »

basilikum wrote: post #76
mproud wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get phone calls for a guy named Randy about his business. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make the phone calls stop. The simplest solution is to change my phone number. But a) why should I have to? it’s my number, dammit! b) how many accounts have 2FA? if I changed my number, what if I miss updating one that’s important? c) it could happen again If I change my number, however, that is the simplest way…

2FA over SMS is stupidly bad. It's worse than TOTP in every aspect including this reason. It is also much less secure. You could start switching accounts to TOTP regardless of this and then decide if you want to switch your number later when you have the option. TOTP is portable and can be backed up. I went a little bit off on a tangent, the stupidity of SMS 2FA is a pet peeve of mine.

I agree but there are so many places that demand only SMS 2FA

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by sneak »

UltraSane wrote: post #107
Aozora7 wrote: post #26

This is one of the obvious consequences of not having a national identity number assigned to everyone at birth, which exist in most developed countries, except for anglosphere, for some reason.

I wish people were assigned a identity certificate with public and private key at birth.

What happens when they lose it? What happens when someone else gets a copy of the private key?

What happens when every app, website, and mobile OS requires a signature for every single post or message, tying all communication to an identity that the government can retaliate against?

This creates many more problems than it solves.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by thetimewotitis »

Aozora7 wrote: post #26

This is one of the obvious consequences of not having a national identity number assigned to everyone at birth, which exist in most developed countries, except for anglosphere, for some reason.

I mean in theory, it doesn't have to be a serial number, and I think that's better. Something about it suggests being enlisted in a national army.

It says the state assigns "A body" a number.

-vs-

The state is made up of us as individuals.

So while the serial keyfield is a data engineers dream, politically I'd welcome something more personal.

Time of birth/parents and other identifying information is on our birth certificates in the UK. Concatenate some of that.

I could be.

DavidAndrewEvans-01011980-0036-MRI-JeanDavis-AlexEvans

Name-DOB-TOB-LocationCode-Parent(s)

Location of Birth like an airport code - MRI (Manchester Royal Infirmary), Parent(s)... i mean we can use their birthdates too.

I actually quite like the idea of it. It seems intrinsically validating to a person to identify them in this way.

Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

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Post by duskdozer »

zhivota wrote: post #3

Honestly the best thing to do might be to change your name at this point. I'm glad my name is not common, this kind of issue is going to only get worse in the future.

Well, until they decide that a name change is inherently suspicious under these circumstances, and things get even worse.
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