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National ID numbers will not help with cross border situations like this.
Don't worry, I don't doubt it will be turned into an international system like phone numbers.
Isn’t that already the case?
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
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Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
#82This is one of the obvious consequences of not having a national identity number assigned to everyone at birth, which exist in most developed countries, except for anglosphere, for some reason.
Ireland has a PPS number which everyone who’s ever had a job or claimed government benefits has. The union of those sets is basically everyone. Clearly that hasn’t helped.
Well.. yea, because it's the US that creates the list, and they don't know or understand that systems like ID numbers exists.
Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Care to be a little less vague? Maybe a little more helpful?
A government may have entirely benign reasons for creating a comprehensive population database, but you cannot guarantee who will control that database later. You have to trust the people who control it, not only now, but at all times in the future, but history does not support that. Nazi Germany and occupied forces used census data, municipal population registers, etc., to identify and track down targeted people. Th…
Are you aware that pretty much every developed country has such database? Even the US, its guaranteed US 3 letters agencies have such comprehensive population databases
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#84Something like this happened to me and it has cost me $20k+ over time, https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded... Mercury unblocked my accounts because their founder is a very kind man who bothered to verify what the document actually says rather than falling back to, "Computer says no." But everywhere else? De nada. Computer says no. And it's not even me. It's a fuzzy match with someone in their…
Terrorism went from "kill one person to scare millions" to "stir shit up to cripple the adversary with the costs of prevention".
That is the fundamental of guerrilla warfare. The guerrillas can't win but can loose with very little cost while the cost for the established side to "Win" is an order of magnitude more.
Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
#85This is one of the obvious consequences of not having a national identity number assigned to everyone at birth, which exist in most developed countries, except for anglosphere, for some reason.
America has social security numbers. U.K. has national
Insurance numbers, Ireland had a PPS and Canada has an SIN
Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
#86Honestly the best thing to do might be to change your name at this point. I'm glad my name is not common, this kind of issue is going to only get worse in the future.
Its not always possible, some countries make it pretty hard to do a change of name
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#87One option might be for the real Sean Byrne to move to the address in Sligo of the fictitious one, then ask to be removed from the Entity List on the grounds that he is a real person. I think that wouldn't work, and could be life-changing in a bad way, but it's an idea.
Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ireland has a PPS number which everyone who’s ever had a job or claimed government benefits has. The union of those sets is basically everyone. Clearly that hasn’t helped.
Well.. yea, because it's the US that creates the list, and they don't know or understand that systems like ID numbers exists.
Americans use their social security numbers like id numbers in all sorts of systems. This problem has nothing to do with id numbers.
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I get phone calls for a guy named Randy about his business. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make the phone calls stop. The simplest solution is to change my phone number. But a) why should I have to? it’s my number, dammit! b) how many accounts have 2FA? if I changed my number, what if I miss updating one that’s important? c) it could happen again If I change my number, however, that is the simplest way…
2FA over SMS is stupidly bad. It's worse than TOTP in every aspect including this reason. It is also much less secure. You could start switching accounts to TOTP regardless of this and then decide if you want to switch your number later when you have the option. TOTP is portable and can be backed up. I went a little bit off on a tangent, the stupidity of SMS 2FA is a pet peeve of mine.
If I lose my phone I have no totp access or sms access
I walk to the local phone shop and get a replacement sim for my number with a few of bits of ID and I regain sms access. Totp access is gone forever.
It’s clearly not worse that totp in every way.
Re: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
#90I once met an Irish person who was detained at Beirut Airport when (trying to) leave the country, and who then disappeared into the Lebanese prison system. Really, he just disappeared. Luckily he was allowed to make a call just after being detained, to his friend who worked for the British Council in Beirut. The friend was tirelessly in searching for him and seeking his release. It wasn’t easy. (I met him just after…
Let me guess, he was living in his home address and he was employed. He had no visits by police but when he tried to leave the country no one was bothered who he really was but they were bothered that a not so much friendly UI message has appeared on the screen.