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Why is anyone still using GoDaddy?
Why did someone not sell a Twitter username for $50k?
https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311-the-twitter-rules
Abuse and Spam > Selling usernames: You may not buy or sell Twitter usernames.
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> A better analogy would be an owner of a valuable piece of property who wasn't putting it to good use. So if you were not putting your backyard to good use you would not feel too bad if your neighbors decided to encroach on it?
I think you're deliberately not hearing what I'm saying. Here's a good analogy: Some rich guy buys an amazing house on a beautiful California beachfront. But then never even bothers to stay there because he's got 3 other vacation homes. It just sits there empty all year long. Would it be ok for someone to break in and start living there? No, of course not. But you do have to kind of dislike that guy right? If he does…
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well, http://plaintextoffenders.com exists - someone should make creditcardoffenders.com .
Kind of off topic but that site also shows sites that email users their password when they create the account. That does not necessarily mean they store it plain text. Though the kind of devs that would send the password in email are likely to store it in plain text, but it's not necessary.
>Using my Google Apps email address with a custom domain feels nice but it has a chance of being stolen if the domain server is compromised. Sigh I use Google Apps exactly so that I have control over the domain and aren't subject to the good will of Google. I had never thought of this particular problem. Now I don't know what to do.
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I'm not using my home tomorrow morning. Is it alright for just anyone to go in and take ownership of it?
In a naturalistic sense? Yes. You only have a "right" to anything you can defend.
That reminds me, a few months ago I had a weird Twitter experience. Someone gained access to my rarely used Twitter account @smartician and started posting spam. Somehow Twitter noticed, reset the password and notified me via email. I have no idea how that was possible.
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Credit card #s and social security #s are not secure. But what should companies use instead? We're a long way from everyone having fingerprint scanners, and I'm sure there will be a way to break that too. Isn't the solution more around recovering from when the break-ins inevitably happen?
Fingerprint scanners sound worse than credit cards to me... Why would you want a password that you can't ever change and leave copies of everywhere you go?
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
Interesting that GoDaddy does not keep an audit trail for account detail changes that might help detect malicious activity. I guess they'll rather lose customers and reputation than do this.
They don't have much to lose reputation-wise...
There doesn't appear to be any way to contact Twitter about this.
Shortly after, I received a second email "Welcome to Twitter, "
Going to: https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation
..and selecting "Someone is using my email address without my permission." tells me to submit a general support ticket. That's fine except none of the general categories has anything to do with this problem and choosing "My issue is not in the list" simply redirects me immediately to the root support page. I submitted a ticket with a different topic and have not heard back from them in a week and expect I never will.