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Honestly 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 f
by zhivota 2mo ago
Honestly 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.
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- kmoser 2mo agoThat is trading one problem for another: when the name on your birth certificate doesn't match the name on your government issued ID, certain other government entities tend to deny you services.
- gucci-on-fleek 2mo agoI would think that changing the last name only should be fine though, since up until somewhat recently, most women changed their last names when they got married, so most systems should be equipped to handle this.
- nephihaha 2mo agoIt used to be very common for migrants to change their surnames, although less so now. There used to be a person who wrote about Scottish Lithuanians called John Millar, who was born as Jonas Stepšys. Noam Chomsky had said that his family's surname was substantially altered after they went to the USA.
- a57721 2mo agoAnd older example: Warner brothers were born as Wonsal (or Wonskolaser), and they changed their names too (Hirsz became Harry, Aaron became Albert).
- nephihaha 2mo agoThere are tonnes of them. Especially Eastern Europeans and Jews. Italians sometimes too. Still happens in entertainment, since Steve Carell and Nicholas Cage's real names are more Italian sounding.
- kmoser 2mo agoYou would think. But that's not always the case: Florida residents face driver’s license denials over mismatched documents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSwv_D8gxw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSwv_D8gxw (Now, it's Florida, which may partly explain the idiocracy.)
- derriz 2mo agoThis is the case for me - since the age of 4 or 5. I don’t live in the US but have lived and worked in 3 different countries and the only time it was an issue was getting married. Everything else - bank accounts, drivers license, residency permits, employer background checks, etc were no problem.
- deeplytroubled 2mo ago[dead]
- basilikum 2mo agoIn some countries you can get a new birrh certificate with your new name.
- grey-area 2mo agoNo, the best thing to do is get the press involved and make Apple and ideally the US gov fix their incompetent handling of this.
- ben_w 2mo agoGiven a US senator was "on" the post-9/11 no-fly list for the same stupid reason, merely making noise and getting the press invlolved isn't enough to fix the deeper problem. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-kennedys-airport-adventure/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-kennedys-airport-adventure/
- mproud 2mo agoI 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 to solve the problem. It’s just, do I want to?
- nephihaha 2mo agoWe managed to get given a drug dealer's former landline, and had to get it changed after strange calls in the middle of the night. Then our neighbours got the same number after about a year and had the same issue.
- basilikum 2mo ago2FA 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.
- hdgvhicv 2mo agoIf 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.
- Peacefulz 2mo agoI suggest exporting your password manager && your topt keychain onto an encrypted flash drive. I went through the horrors of having a phone die on me after migrating my topt to a local solution. Having a valid login cookie on bitwarden on my laptop was the only thing that saved me.
- eterm 2mo agoWhat name do you suggest they choose, "Roger Thornhill" perhaps?
- bachmitre 2mo agoTim Cook should do, or Donald Trump, either one should get you removed from the list quickly
- dgellow 2mo agoIts not always possible, some countries make it pretty hard to do a change of name
- duskdozer 2mo agoWell, until they decide that a name change is inherently suspicious under these circumstances, and things get even worse.
- projektfu 2mo agoIn Ireland you can use the Gaelic spelling and probably get away with it. Poof, no matches for Seán Ó Beirn.