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If only Google could run their other businesses as frictionless as this... Found an interesting bug? Let's have a 1-1 chat over lunch, drinks are on us BTW.

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• shadowgovt 5y ago
  It's tough; I wish I had a good solution to the latter problem. Half the trouble is the majority of what Google bans is semi-automated bot farms; the "minimal human contact" policies are to avoid making the company vulnerable to social engineering. (That vulnerability goes deep. People would look up the phone numbers of Google offices and call with stories about kidnapped family members and the need to get into a Gmail account to find the ransom note.)
  • saalweachter 5y ago
    To some extent, it all comes down to identity. If you knew which unique person was associated with each account and if you knew which unique person you were talking to on the phone, it would be possible to verify both that you are talking to the person you should be and that you aren't talking to Notorious Social Engineer #2344 trying to do something shady. But instead you're stuck trying to figure out if "Saal Weachter" on the the phone is the proper owner of the 'saalweachter' account, or even if it is someone named "Saal Weachter" on the phone at all.