bobdole123456

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by bobdole123456 8y ago
Equifax seems to be doing alright. Sony hasn’t failed yet. I don’t think your opinion matches with reality.
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
The difference here is that Google found this problem itself, and evaluated with high confidence that it was likely unknown to anyone outside that audit. That means that Google was proactively checking it’s work to make sure it was secure,
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
Yeah. That’s what the adults were talking about. We can’t trust the supply chain.
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
Being the best in the market isn’t an antitrust issue. There isn’t any credible alternative to Google because they’re head and shoulders above everyone else. There are other search engines, they just don’t measure up.
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
Except that the entire reason most sites are searchable is because of the analytics includes on every single page, everywhere. So, literally every click you make is trickling data back to Facegoogsoft, because that’s how indexing works.
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
What now? https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/usin...
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
I’d say google learned from Gates and Zuckerberg getting grandstanded at.
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
Not the second time, and that’s really the important part.
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
This isn’t a feature to authenticate the account. This is to identify the person using the account. They’re tying the person using the account to a phone number that person apparently controls, and thus a billing contact. This usually means
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
10 year old accounts get hijacked all the time.
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
You don’t think there is a system for network providers to identify customers to each other? How about to law enforcement?
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
Except that with the advent of mobile billing, and the like, any phone service provider can pull your info from pretty much anywhere in the world. Which is why Google is asking for a phone number here, they think the account is likely abusi
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
Most of the tracking in your google account is to give you the answers you’re looking for, not because it’s of any benefit other than providing a better service. Like when I search for a three letter acronym, google knows that I’m an engine
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
This is an anti-spam and anti-abuse requirement, not because they need you to tell them your phone number. They’re on most of the phones in the world, and have access to all the billing records associated with your phone number, as they’re
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by bobdole123456 8y ago
It’s a security measure FOR THEIR SECURITY, not for yours. It’s an anti-spam, and anti-abuse measure. So they’re not giving away free resources that get used to harass their users. Why would Google need you to give them your phone number to