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Post by ArnoVW »

eru wrote: post #199
catoc wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Law firms that send very sensitive legal documents over email… #sigh I’d switch firms immediately if that’s their level of opsec awareness

What are you talking about? If you send emails from eg GMail to Gmail, it's fairly secure.

if you attach documents by linking to a Google Drive document, sure.

if you attach documents 'inside' the mail (i.e. MIME encoded multipart) that is most definitely not secure.

1) you do not know how that mail gets delivered, not necessarily via servers that support encryption 2) you do not know how that mail, or the attachment, gets stored on the local machine 3) you do now know if the mail, or attachment, is sent to someone else 4) you cannot revoke the access to the document once the Need To Known stops

In our ISMS, sending Highly Sensitive data (ex: customer data) by attaching directly to a mail, is strictly not allowed by the IT charter. We explain it during an on-boarding meeting to all new staff members. And it's a fireable offense.

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Post by citizenkeen »

xg15 wrote: post #186
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #107

Earlier 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.

Also interesting how the definition of "famous" has changed due to that: We now have thousands of "micro-celebrities" who undoubtedly have a fan/celebrity relationship with their specific audience, yet are completely unknown to a wider audience. So even fame is now a relative term.

The Warhol Corollary: In the future, everybody will be famous to fifteen people.

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Post by linohh »

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…

That is so incredibly smart. I have a very common gmail address (initial + last name) and literally hundreds of people use this mail address and I would love to resolve the countless issues I can witness from getting the mails alone, but I essentially have no chance at all.

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Post by unangst »

donohoe wrote: post #208
zukzuk wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 use my lastname [at] gmail (same as my HN username). Over the years, I’ve received all sorts of misdirected messages: medical, financial, support, even real estate documents. When it seems important, I do my best to contact the sender and let them know. What I’ve learned is that “no-reply” email addresses can cause real harm in situations where it’s critical to reach an actual person.

Same boat. Obscure last name humans unite!

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Post by mr_toad »

willsmith72 wrote: post #224
fiatpandas wrote: post #200

Could anyone shed some light on the password reset email “hack”? I don’t really understand the attack sequence if the attacker doesn’t have access to your inbox. Even if you clicked them they don’t get access. My conclusion is trolling / annoyance. The same thing happens to my Instagram account, which is an old 3-letter username that is desirable. I get hundreds of reset emails per month, all generated by the real se…

how much are these services wasting sending out these emails? surely some rate limiting would be sensible

Compared to the torrent of actual spam this is just a drop in the bucket.

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Post by alex1138 »

a5c11 wrote: post #221
mat0 wrote: post #8

Good 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

A couple of years ago when I still was on Facebook, I had a problem with my account being falsely accused of hacking. I believe it happened because I had been chatting with my friend about computer malware. All my chats were gone, and I couldn't write to any of my friends. "Okay, I will just reach the tech support, and solve the problem" - silly me back then. I was genuinely shocked that there was no "Facebook suppor…

Facebook will ban you for the most odd of reasons, but report actual gore etc? Well now, that doesn't actually violate our TOS/community guidelines/blah

Gmail/Google has the same problem but I suspect and correct me if I'm wrong that it's less surface area to ban you - unless that did happen to people on Google+? But Google+ also didn't have its founder famously tell people "...they 'trust me', dumb fucks"

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Post by dirtybirdnj »

lordnacho wrote: post #130
bloovis wrote: post #118

My ex-wife had the same name as a woman in another state who had beaten up a cop and done jail time. So every time my wife's driver's license came up for renewal, the DMV decided she was that criminal, and refused to issue the license. This happened so often, she eventually was on a first-name basis with the DMV director, who had to intervene every time. I'm guessing this problem due to the DMV in our little state us…

Are criminals not allowed to drive?

No, those are the people who refuse to upgrade the old COBOL systems. They are allowed to drive.

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Post by Nursie »

I’m have a very common first name and moderately common second name. The people who I have discovered that share my name have been nothing but a pain in the arse.

There was the Guantanamo inmate who managed to get me flagged for extra checks on every flight I took from around 2005-11.

Then there was the guy who leased some mining equipment and failed to pay, which somehow ended up on a background check for me for a job.

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Post by nvarsj »

nvarsj wrote: post #97
jowea wrote: post #11

This is why we should replace names with uuids.

What is more likely to happen is a global namespace of unique names. Famous and powerful people get to pick first, because they are more important. Names can be inherited and become signs of your class and wealth. You get to be Bob192382, because you got in early and only had to add 6 numeric digits. In the year 2100, we're at 15 digits.

I guess people missed my sarcasm here.

See the username efforts of tech companies like Discord, etc.

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Post by bonzini »

rkomorn wrote: post #225
bonzini wrote: post #211

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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…

What a weird world. :) Edit: side note, your username is also the name of my favorite fusball table maker.

YES! I have no idea if we're related, but imagine the surprise when you "first get internet at home", and my father and I decided to search our surname on Altavista, and we found foosball tables and tournaments!
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