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221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by stogot »

some_random wrote: post #62
dclowd9901 wrote: post #45

> He gave me the standard line: 2-3 weeks if I hear from anyone. > I never heard from anyone. What is the FBI doing if they're not working on cases like this or domestic terrorism/mass shootings? We continue to have both classes of crimes in droves.

They're busy planning domestic terrorism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl... ), entrapping the mentally ill ( https://archive.vn/riFSI ), etc. In all seriousness, this is probably an international crime and they just do not have the resources to chase them all down.

That first link does not prove your claim

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by swiftcoder »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #175
happyopossum wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Swimming at a gas station pump would be uncomfortably lethal.

I wonder how well you would have to be able to swim to overcome the density/buoyancy difference if swimming in a pool of gasoline?

It's a pretty drastic density difference. I think an Olympic swimmer would have a hard time staying above the surface.

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by shakna »

dandelany wrote: post #125
dizhn wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Leaked? Isn't it used in the open basically like for everything including student IDs?

This was once common but is exceedingly rare these days. I'm sure exceptions exist, but nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number.

Secret... But generatable since 2009. [0] 2011 randomisation slightly reduced the risk, but not by much.

As many as 1 in 7 SSNs may have been accidentally used by more than one person. [1]

Unlike Australia's TFN or the UK's VAT, SSN has no self-check, making it rather easy to just... Generate one that works.

And all an API check of the number will tell you, is what an attacker would already have: DOB and Place of Birth.

[0] https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0904891106

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/odds-someone-else-has-your...

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

ivraatiems wrote: post #89

I have had people show up at my house to ask if it was for rent, based on a fake post on Facebook using photos from Zillow from before my home was sold. My realtor helped me get the photos taken down, but the Facebook ads for it are up to this day. Facebook completely ignores any and all attempts by me to report this malfeasance -- even though these ads literally have my personal home address on them! It's a huge saf…

how much of your time do these visits take up, can you document it and then sue Facebook in small claims court for your time and effort? This seems a stretch but maybe it could be made to work, it could be amusing if so.

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by dizhn »

swiftcoder wrote: post #180
dandelany wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was once common but is exceedingly rare these days. I'm sure exceptions exist, but nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number.

> nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number I don't think that they actually do in practice. Last time I opened an account with Comcast they required your social security number. Same with an AT&T cell plan.

Probably something to do with checking credit history right?

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by Hardwired8976 »

kstrauser wrote: post #93
emptybits wrote: post #7

1. Author lost me at his first sentence: "Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life." I am careful and aware of this possibility, but AFAIK I have not experienced this, nor have "most people" I know. o_O Crazy times. 2. I don't even understand how a title transfer could happen without verifying ownership. Is the title system in the USA decentralized or that much different than elsewhere?…

In the dark old days before Apple Pay, where it was common in America to hand your credit/debit card to some rando at a restaurant and have them disappear with it for a few minutes, about once a year my bank would call me to ask if I'd been using my card in some far-off locale: "Hi! Are you in Tijuana?" "Not since 1993. Why? What's up?" "So you didn't just try to buy gasoline at a PEMEX there?" "Nope, I'm in San Fran…

Handing your credit card to pay is still such a foreign concept to me

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by reaperducer »

swiftcoder wrote: post #180
dandelany wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was once common but is exceedingly rare these days. I'm sure exceptions exist, but nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number.

> nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number I don't think that they actually do in practice. Last time I opened an account with Comcast they required your social security number. Same with an AT&T cell plan.

Last time I opened an account with Comcast they required your social security number. Same with an AT&T cell plan.

Strictly speaking they require /a/ Social Security Number, not necessarily /your/ SSN.

When I signed up for my most recent cellular service, I hesitated at giving my information to the guy in the store. I told him that since it was a pre-paid account I wasn't asking for credit, so there's no need for him to have my information.

He was OK with that, and pulled out an ID card the store keeps in a drawer for just such occasions.

Salespeople have a sales quota, not an enforce-the-rules quota.

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by direwolf20 »

citizenpaul wrote: post #117
ivraatiems wrote: post #89

I have had people show up at my house to ask if it was for rent, based on a fake post on Facebook using photos from Zillow from before my home was sold. My realtor helped me get the photos taken down, but the Facebook ads for it are up to this day. Facebook completely ignores any and all attempts by me to report this malfeasance -- even though these ads literally have my personal home address on them! It's a huge saf…

Facebook admits around 10% of their ads are fraudulent. I think it's much higher. The scam is even larger than you see and exploits missing children reports. There are huge automated scam networks that post missing children reports then get people to share them. Then once the post/ad gets traction they change it to a listing of a house that is auto pulled from public information. They then use that to scam people. Pl…

A leaked Facebook document showed they know which ads are fraudulent because the ad system is programmed to never show those ads to the ad regulators, and it's most of the ads.

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by direwolf20 »

reaperducer wrote: post #188
swiftcoder wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number I don't think that they actually do in practice. Last time I opened an account with Comcast they required your social security number. Same with an AT&T cell plan.

Last time I opened an account with Comcast they required your social security number. Same with an AT&T cell plan. Strictly speaking they require /a/ Social Security Number, not necessarily /your/ SSN. When I signed up for my most recent cellular service, I hesitated at giving my information to the guy in the store. I told him that since it was a pre-paid account I wasn't asking for credit, so there's no need for him…

Same when I visited Germany, every phone account needs your name and address and passport number to prevent spam, I bought a prepaid card, since I don't live there I don't have an address, so he used the address of the store. Still needed a passport though.
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