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Pretty easy to digest explanations and some fine opsec tips in there. Obviously self promotion (How can you protect yourself? Use privacy.com!!) but nothing str

by p410n3 6y ago

Pretty easy to digest explanations and some fine opsec tips in there. Obviously self promotion (How can you protect yourself? Use privacy.com!!) but nothing strikes me as being a lie or misrepresentation

gruez 6y ago
>but nothing strikes me as being a lie or misrepresentation I think this point is kind of sketchy. >Go incognito with a unique credit card number. Virtual cards allow you to use improvised information at checkout to fight against hackers and protect yourself against data breaches—an important consumer safeguard right at the point of sale. Does privacy.com allow you to put in fake billing addresses when you use their cards, and does that pass AVS? I really don't see how using a virtual card number is like "incognito" if you still have to use your real billing address, especially when you already have multiple credit cards.
- gotem 6y ago
  You can use any billing address and name. Pretty awesome
  - blindm 6y ago
    Which is tied to your legal name and real address, as per the Privacy.com terms. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and unless you register a Privacy.com account with fake credentials, you can throw any notion of privacy out the door.
    - goodluckchuck 6y ago
      It's privacy such that the seller doesn't know who you are. Which is certainly more privacy, even if it doesn't provide privacy against legal process, etc.
      - t0astbread 6y ago
        It would also depend on who Privacy.com shares the link between you and your pseudonyms with. Their ToS/privacy policy mention third party identity verification and fraud prevention but it's not really clear what that means and if it entails de-anonymizing pseudonyms towards payment intermediaries.
- shuckles 6y ago
  Payment networks now support the Payment Account Reference standard, which will map any virtual account number to an underlying funding account. Does privacy.com pay out of its own bank account? If not, this part of their value proposition is mostly privacy theatre.

by p410n3 6y ago

gruez 6y ago

>but nothing strikes me as being a lie or misrepresentation I think this point is kind of sketchy. >Go incognito with a unique credit card number. Virtual cards allow you to use improvised information at checkout to fight against hackers and protect yourself against data breaches—an important consumer safeguard right at the point of sale. Does privacy.com allow you to put in fake billing addresses when you use their cards, and does that pass AVS? I really don't see how using a virtual card number is like "incognito" if you still have to use your real billing address, especially when you already have multiple credit cards.

gotem 6y ago
You can use any billing address and name. Pretty awesome
- blindm 6y ago
  Which is tied to your legal name and real address, as per the Privacy.com terms. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and unless you register a Privacy.com account with fake credentials, you can throw any notion of privacy out the door.
  - goodluckchuck 6y ago
    It's privacy such that the seller doesn't know who you are. Which is certainly more privacy, even if it doesn't provide privacy against legal process, etc.
    - t0astbread 6y ago
      It would also depend on who Privacy.com shares the link between you and your pseudonyms with. Their ToS/privacy policy mention third party identity verification and fraud prevention but it's not really clear what that means and if it entails de-anonymizing pseudonyms towards payment intermediaries.
shuckles 6y ago
Payment networks now support the Payment Account Reference standard, which will map any virtual account number to an underlying funding account. Does privacy.com pay out of its own bank account? If not, this part of their value proposition is mostly privacy theatre.