Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
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Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#2> can no longer access his bank accounts, which are tied to his Hotmail account, he says.
Come on. This is such exaggeration. Surely he has contacted the banks (note: plural as per article) and he can access his accounts. Not even one?
Banks routinely handle identification via phone to access your account and transact.
Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#3This is why I have my own domain and control the MX records on the DNS on it, so that I can reroute email to a new email provider, if needed (I pay for Fastmail).
Another nice thing about having a catch-all on own domain is that you can sign up to each service with a unique email address, e.g. @, which makes it easy to see if any services ever sold your address.
Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#4> can no longer access his bank accounts, which are tied to his Hotmail account, he says. Come on. This is such exaggeration. Surely he has contacted the banks (note: plural as per article) and he can access his accounts. Not even one? Banks routinely handle identification via phone to access your account and transact.
One of my banks uses email two factor auth- if I lost access to the email account and had no accessible backup email set I can see how being locked out of the email account would deny access to the bank account.
Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#5> can no longer access his bank accounts, which are tied to his Hotmail account, he says. Come on. This is such exaggeration. Surely he has contacted the banks (note: plural as per article) and he can access his accounts. Not even one? Banks routinely handle identification via phone to access your account and transact.
My grocery story requires email 2FA to log into it these days. Losing access to my email address would probably be more work than if I found myself having to move house.
Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#6These companies want to become as ubiquitous as a public utility. Therefore they should be regulated like a public utility
Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#7> can no longer access his bank accounts, which are tied to his Hotmail account, he says. Come on. This is such exaggeration. Surely he has contacted the banks (note: plural as per article) and he can access his accounts. Not even one? Banks routinely handle identification via phone to access your account and transact.
well, consider the life of an immigrant ( mine ).
i have bank accounts in India and the US.
when i need to access my Indian accounts from the US, they provide me a 2fa code via sms and email.
i don't have international roaming on my Indian SIM. Its active, but not really working in the US.
losing email access means i lose access to some of my bank accounts.
Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#8Was this decision made in Redmond or in Israel? Microsoft has offices in Israel and these offices are likely responsible for things happening in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel is currently at "war" with Gaza and having Israeli employees of Microsoft having the ability to disable anyone's account calling civilians in Gaza is pretty horrible.
Is Microsoft via Skype and Hotmail participating in what Israel's leaders are call the "complete siege"? https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-ministe...
No appeal and no explanation available does suggest to me the shutdown orders may have come from Israeli security services or the Israeli army.
Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#9> can no longer access his bank accounts, which are tied to his Hotmail account, he says. Come on. This is such exaggeration. Surely he has contacted the banks (note: plural as per article) and he can access his accounts. Not even one? Banks routinely handle identification via phone to access your account and transact.
One of my banks uses email two factor auth- if I lost access to the email account and had no accessible backup email set I can see how being locked out of the email account would deny access to the bank account.
but surely you can show up at your bank with identification and get the email changed?
Re: Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
#10These companies want to become as ubiquitous as a public utility. Therefore they should be regulated like a public utility
Especially if they don't give you access to you data (impossible in the EU thanks to the GDPR). They have to be taken to court for this.