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by scient 8y ago
There is no such thing as identity theft protection. Its all snake oil.
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by scient 8y ago
There are a couple of vendors out there who at least try to detect SIM swapping and traffic hijacking. It's better than nothing and eliminates the simplest attacks, but still has it flaws, including happy path case support (like only w
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by scient 8y ago
All methods eventually have a flaw. The goal is to reduce the attack surface and increase the complexity of the attack, no to elemininate all vectors.
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by scient 8y ago
Then use their client. Its a free service, what are you complaining about.
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by scient 8y ago
Blockchain as "major upcoming"? Like after all these startups have not managed to produce any substantial success stories and there are no real validations of a technological fit besides crypto-currency? Where IBM is desperate as
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by scient 8y ago
More buzzwords.
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by scient 8y ago
Sounds like a case of not handling the UX of the feature properly. What you can do is either allow them to unlock the account via email, or have a time-based unlock, or both. We do 72 hours or unlock it via email.
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by scient 8y ago
Dont think thats really a thing outside of US (another thing the US is like awkwardly behind in).
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by scient 8y ago
Most trackers have a way to handle non-JS clients by rendering a tracking pixel - a solution that has been out there for a long time now.
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by scient 8y ago
This is the problem - these blockchain ideologists only tend to see problems and solutions from the perspective of the actual cryptocurrency blockchains. Real world is sadly a little different...
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by scient 8y ago
Please do list a couple of useful solutions where blockchain is the right/better tool for the jobs and thats outside of crypto coins or secondary layer of payment abstraction (and even there any payment option could work better in a lo
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by scient 8y ago
Coming from a former Soviet state, we did not have disposable diapers when me and my siblings were growing up. Washable diapers were the only option, and it was horrible. Both for the kids as well as the parents having to wash them all the
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by scient 9y ago
In my experience for whatever reason a lot of software engineers consider normal functional communication with their peers and managers as ass kissing. Is it because of being introverted?
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by scient 9y ago
In the end its not the crypto that makes it more secure. Estonia still has a national identifier number, just like US has the SSN. The difference is that while I can know your name, DOB and the identifier (which actually contains your DOB i
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by scient 9y ago
E-Residency is still a solution looking for a problem, the program runners just dont want to admit it yet. Instead they sink more money into a pointless cause. Estonia literally needs to make amendments to their constitution for this to wor
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by scient 9y ago
A bad a excuse for a bad library. See this time and time again in NodeJS though.
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by scient 9y ago
And even after pushing out chip reader terminals and cards with chips, banks in the US refuse to institute mandatory PIN code entry on all payments with the chip - as its everywhere in Europe. So nothing really changed.
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by scient 9y ago
You open the account in person, by showing them your ID card. The bank has access to the central national database of IDs, so they can compare if the ID card shown by the person matches the information coming from the central db, matching t
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by scient 9y ago
There are legitimate use cases where collecting and storing (in some manner at least) is necessary. You cannot just stop companies from collecting information, and furthermore stop them from storing any of it. Thats just naive.
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by scient 9y ago
Funny. Software engineers complaining that someone talking about politics is as rich as the politicians. But you talking about politics on behalf of people who are way worse off than you is somehow different. Its not like engineers are the
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by scient 9y ago
A link to Github issues and a GH page with zero screenshots. Thats not how to promote your OS project :(
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by scient 9y ago
Since when does Amazon have their own delivery people? Sure you are not talking about a USPS/UPS worker here.
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by scient 9y ago
And yet where I live I get packages left at my door for days, noone is touching them, there are no bullet proof vending machines and people generally are well behaved and courteous. This just to remind you that the US is huge, consists of 5
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by scient 9y ago
I think you forgot the /s
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by scient 9y ago
You say that as if they would be punished for that. And its not like they do this all the time...
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by scient 9y ago
The scenarios you described sound like straight from "The Innovators Dilemma". Except the companies thinking this way were disrupted out of business.
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by scient 9y ago
Dont think these companies want to hire people who freak out over meaningless things like this...
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by scient 9y ago
And I think people who make these kinds of ridiculous blanket statements are a joke.
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by scient 9y ago
People who claim BTC is the next mainstream currency are delusional. Its an investment commodity right now, and its way too volatile, way too little regulated and capped too low to be a serious currency contender. Seriously, the real world
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by scient 9y ago
So why use blockchain? Whats the benefit? The only thing I can think of is proof of authentication attempts, a kind of a irrefutable log of some sort. But whats the benefit its providing, that we are lacking today?

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