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How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Re: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Post by Gracana »

nthj wrote: post #37
harryh wrote: post #18

Who are people's current favorite domain registrars? I've been with name.com for the last year or so and have been happy, but I'm always curios to hear from others.

http://DNSimple.com for us. Their template system and support is fantastic.

About a year ago I registered at DNSimple to check out their services, because I was frustrated with my current registrar/DNS host (1and1.) One of the owners must have noticed I registered but didn't buy anything, because he contacted me to ask if there was anything in particular I needed. I appreciated the courtesy and told him I'd switch over when my domain neared expiration... and when the time came, I did!

Honestly I don't have enough experience with them to really evaluate their services, but they seem trustworthy and competent, and I like working with people I know I can talk to.

Re: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Post by pistle »

You can sell twitter @'s now? #itsNotWorth50k

Follow us at @N on twitter.

Looks like a typo. Imparts zero cred since 99.999% of people will not take your ability to "possess" a short twitter account name as helpful for whatever else you may be trying to do.

As far as the "Sorry I am so technically gifted. Let me tell you what you should do to prevent me next time..." thing, what kind of cartoon caper is this?

Re: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Post by cpach »

kmfrk wrote: post #328
cpach wrote: post #246

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That's an awesome idea!

The problem with services like that is that they aren't likely to be updated, if the company improve their measures. You'd have to check in regularly to confirm this is still the way they do things.

That’s definitely a potential issue. Would be cool if the users’ incentives could be set up in a way that prevent the information from getting outdated.

Re: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Post by coryking »

aaronem wrote: post #348
talmand wrote: post #332

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During my time working on websites for a retail company the imagery of the credit cards accepted were considered important. They would even be on pages that just mentioned taking payments before you get to the actual input page. One reasoning is that it is a sort of reassurance, much like the stickers you see on doors of retail locations that show which cards they accept. It's a reassurance in the idea that if you're…

All of what you say is true, but I was referring to a dropdown or radio button set for choice of card type, and not the card type images themselves, which I always included unless the client preferred otherwise -- something I don't remember ever happening, now I think back.

I may be talking out of my ass, but if I recall correctly back when I had a merchant account I may have been required to add that drop-down even if it was meaningless.

Re: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Post by rdl »

The advice to use @gmail.com vs. a custom domain name seems kind of questionable if you use a reasonably secure registrar. Not GoDaddy.

Using an unusual/unknown address for account validation mails (maybe with forwarding of other communications) probably would make sense, though. And/or sites coming up with a better account-recovery procedure, perhaps outsourced to a startup.

There's probably a market for a super-secure email address for account login mails, but that isn't a free gmail account.

Re: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Post by yuhong »

mseebach wrote: post #287
ck2 wrote: post #253

This story is horrifying because PayPal was the enabler. PayPal gave the attacker the last four digits of my credit card number over the phone That person should lose their job if it is not PayPal policy. I really hope by some small chance the person that did this gets some serious prison time, if not for this then anything else prior or down the road. Then maybe one of those mornings they wake up in prison they can…

It's possible that this was gross negligence on part of the employee and that the thief just got really, really lucky - but that seems unlikely. This is a systemic fault of PayPal and firing a lowly phone-jockey will not solve that. There are computer system protections that were clearly not in place (the representative was able to see this data on the screen, rather than having to enter it blind and have it validate…

I wonder if David Marcus can help here.

Re: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Post by gaius »

anthonys wrote: post #237
gaius wrote: post #227

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The first digit of a credit card number identifies the type of company the issuer is, e.g. 1 is an airline, 3 is a travel agency, 4 and 5 are credit card companies, 7 is an oil company. The final digit is a checksum. Two things about this baffle me: 1) that websites feel the need to have a dropdown to identify what sort of card you have instead of just figuring it out and 2) why they need to ping it off the issuer's…

I agree- there's no need to get people to choose the type of card however for 2), that's not always the case. Pretty much all cards can be validated with the Luhn algorithm in js. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20725761/validate-credit-...

Yes - things such as two transposed digits can easily and should be trapped on the client side.

Re: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

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Post by clarky07 »

harel wrote: post #315
brador wrote: post #274

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In a naturalistic sense? Yes. You only have a "right" to anything you can defend.

In which case, once I return in the afternoon I will be entitled to shoot whomever is there for trying to steal my home. I'll be 'naturalisticaly' defending it. Sounds like a great way to run a society. I better make sure I have a bigger gun than the rest then. (edit-language)

Actually, castle doctrine does give you the right shoot someone breaking into your home in almost every state. It is exactly the way our current society is run.
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