embeddedsystems

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by embeddedsystems 6y ago
Yes, these are blocked at most services already. Definitely blocked by banks. Need short code ability to be used too.
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by embeddedsystems 6y ago
WP's site helpfully tries to show "this person's other phone numbers". My guess is it's acquired via credit institutions when you use that number for 2FA with a bank (since honestly, what the hell, virtually no bank
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by embeddedsystems 6y ago
I do a bunch of stuff in the gaming space, and WP has been one of the bigger causes of pain for streamers. Often separate 2FA-only - to prevent account hijacks - cellphones that are paid monthly and used nowhere else still show up, and the
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by embeddedsystems 6y ago
Unfortunately, this isn't the case in 2010+, where the WP site purchases tons of info from data brokers to sell. You don't need a landline or to opt in.
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by embeddedsystems 6y ago
The white pages should not even exist. You're using an unwanted, non opt-in, forced privacy violation as a reason. You exist in Experian, does that mean that automatically gives me the right to bother you and tell people online to both
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by embeddedsystems 6y ago
It isn't that I'm playing a game, it's that game anticheat these days will collect and send so much PII 24/7 even when there is no game running, and the anticheat service is NOT removed when you uninstall the game that l
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by embeddedsystems 6y ago
Should I just try to expense a cheap Thinkpad then? To be clear, this was not a corporate issued device, it is my home PC that I installed the VPN client on - my work is largely done in a browser on a "LAN" website. The VPN client
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5 points by embeddedsystems 6y ago|6 comments