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Post by close04 »

toast0 wrote: post #345
close04 wrote: post #122

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> burger means civilian Nice try, so you tell me that the burger hospital I passed by is not in fact a place where they patch up burgers until they’re back on their feet? A lot of countries have a unique ID for their citizens which is used for routine identification. On websites, at the bank, etc. nothing special about SSNs in this regard, except that they were leaked more times than you can count.

> On websites, at the bank, etc. nothing special about SSNs in this regard, except that they were leaked more times than you can count. That's not that special either. Plenty of countries make their numbers de jure public information. The most special thing about the SSN is that the cards say (or said) not for identification, and then they're used for exactly that.

> Plenty of countries make their numbers de jure public information.

That's the difference. A lot of people and processes in the US make the assumption that the SSN is a well kept secret despite them being publicly leaked so many times. This assumption is a weakness for any process that relies on "secret" SSNs.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by eru »

dahart wrote: post #420
eru wrote: post #399

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> [...] and gmail has forwarding and IMAP and aliases and other services that send emails outside of gmail. No matter what format you hand a recipient a document in, they can always make a photocopy and pass it on.

Sure. How’s that relevant?

That someone might use IMAP is no worse than someone using a photocopier.

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

failingforward wrote: post #301
Polizeiposaune wrote: post #263

Another recent name collision story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/british-newspaper-spoke-... (Note the slightly different spelling; the former mayor is "de Blasio", while the wine importer is "DeBlasio") quote: The man at the heart of a high-stakes mix-up that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill d…

“said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.” We are truly living in the future.

Video doorbells have been around for a long time.

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Post by mafuy »

kid64 wrote: post #318
dahart wrote: post #282

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If it hypothetically was a crime, I wonder how often it would actually get prosecuted given someone used their real ID, showing the office failed to check anything other than a name known to have dupes, and/or given they had no intent to steal something and acted with knowledge and permission of the intended recipient, showing no malicious intent. I can imagine reasons those wouldn’t be considered a valid defense, bu…

Obtaining something of value through deception is fraud.

My name is X and another person also named X tells me to gather their documents from the office. Other X also signs a paper for me that says I'm allowed to do this.

I ask the office clerk: "Hi, I'm here to retreive the documents for X". He checks my ID and gives me the documents without asking for written permission from the other X.

It's deception by omission, but there is no fraud. I was legally allowed to do this. It's also a win for everyone because it avoids complications.

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Post by [deleted] »

jacquesm wrote: post #253
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…

> At some point, they even organized an impersonation because someone needed to retrieve an official document and couldn’t be there in person. Another member nearby offered to go and get it. “Won’t you need my ID for that? — Oh, I have one with just the right name…” That's a felony in many places.

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Post by steve469 »

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Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by animal531 »

multjoy wrote: post #360
donohoe wrote: post #208

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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.

One of my gmail doppelgängers has started trading crypto and I am deeply concerned for them.

I think mine is worse off. He keeps being signed up for Facebook notifications on whatever activity he's doing.

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Post by rkomorn »

marcusb wrote: post #395
missedthecue wrote: post #388

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I've noticed a lot of sites and orgs wont accept email domains that aren't gmail, hotmail, outlook, icloud, or yahoo.

Interesting. I've used my personal domain name for email for almost 30 years and I've never had that problem.

Similar boat (~25 years) and, while I've run into some sites/services that rejected my domain, I'm pretty sure it's happened fewer than 5 times, total.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by mghackerlady »

Honestly the more I read the more I felt bad for the guy. Like yeah, having your personal facebook disabled a bunch is funny but I couldn't imagine getting a bunch of threats directed towards you is very good for the psyche, especially while getting hundreds of calls a day
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