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Another reason to not use Google/Facebook or similar identities to login to a service. You lose access to your Google account, you lose access to all those othe

by jms703 5y ago

Another reason to not use Google/Facebook or similar identities to login to a service. You lose access to your Google account, you lose access to all those other services.

Ansil849 5y ago
This is such a crucial point that so many people overlook, even when being cognizant of the risk of storing data on the cloud, somehow SSO integration is many tech-literate users' blind spot.
- harlanji 5y ago
  I had quite the interaction with Twitch about having lost my email domain. I can still stream to the channel but they said “that you believe to be yours”... quite funny because I believe nothing to be mine, but they came out and said that it’s not mine. They acted as though I were upset, and I’m sure many people that they deal with are. But it’s true, these accounts and phone numbers are not ours. The closest thing to ours is private keys for onion host routing which are addresssed as the public key derived from the private key tailed with dot-onion (https://pubkey.onion https://pubkey.onion). And most software works with Tor our of the box via torify. Tested with self-signed HTTPS and XMPP and others have with email. Tor may not be anonymous, but identity ownership is a killer use case. 2022 the year of the onion? I can commit to wrapping all my things going forward.
- numpad0 5y ago
  It feels wrong that we all call it "data" as some sort of replaceable tangible volume, when what it represents are context.
usr1106 5y ago
I used to have many Google accounts (credentials in my password manager). One for gmail, one for every mailing list on goougle groups, one for Google+ etc. For a while they haven't let me use them whithout problems providing a phone number. They force me into some security check-up after logging in which seems to have no way to skip the phone number entry. Less Google for me, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
amelius 5y ago
Apple ID too
antihero 5y ago
And furthermore, the more you use them for, the greater the likelihood of falling afoul of some ToS or bot.

by jms703 5y ago

Another reason to not use Google/Facebook or similar identities to login to a service. You lose access to your Google account, you lose access to all those other services.

Ansil849 5y ago

This is such a crucial point that so many people overlook, even when being cognizant of the risk of storing data on the cloud, somehow SSO integration is many tech-literate users' blind spot.

harlanji 5y ago
I had quite the interaction with Twitch about having lost my email domain. I can still stream to the channel but they said “that you believe to be yours”... quite funny because I believe nothing to be mine, but they came out and said that it’s not mine. They acted as though I were upset, and I’m sure many people that they deal with are. But it’s true, these accounts and phone numbers are not ours. The closest thing to ours is private keys for onion host routing which are addresssed as the public key derived from the private key tailed with dot-onion (https://pubkey.onion https://pubkey.onion). And most software works with Tor our of the box via torify. Tested with self-signed HTTPS and XMPP and others have with email. Tor may not be anonymous, but identity ownership is a killer use case. 2022 the year of the onion? I can commit to wrapping all my things going forward.
numpad0 5y ago
It feels wrong that we all call it "data" as some sort of replaceable tangible volume, when what it represents are context.

usr1106 5y ago

I used to have many Google accounts (credentials in my password manager). One for gmail, one for every mailing list on goougle groups, one for Google+ etc. For a while they haven't let me use them whithout problems providing a phone number. They force me into some security check-up after logging in which seems to have no way to skip the phone number entry. Less Google for me, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

amelius 5y ago

Apple ID too

antihero 5y ago

And furthermore, the more you use them for, the greater the likelihood of falling afoul of some ToS or bot.