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Shame Boy posted:i was in the gmail beta but i was a childe so i think i picked like "cool videogame character @gmail.com" oh well i was just old enough that i tried to weigh the odds on how many invites they were going to send out, and ended up deciding i would go with a real name address versus some internet handle that i might be embarrassed about in two years
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 that was not the case when Hotmail launched though
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my first gmail account name used the number 3 instead of the letter e, lmao
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evil_bunnY posted:TSA is never ever supposed to touch a gun case without you present hth The TSA not following their own rules? Next you'll tell me that valuables can go missing in checked luggage too!
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akadajet posted:same, but my forums name same
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i registered my old hAcKeR name as an alias at work
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your parents failed you if your full given name isn’t globally unique
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El Mero Mero posted:I thought it would be funny to register something very similar to help@gmail.com when Gmail first launched. Perplx posted:your parents failed you if your full given name isn’t globally unique
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iuuds
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Agile Vector posted:iuuds lol
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Globally unique names make for easy doxxing. Much better to be called John Smith or something.
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i was using gmail early enough that someone heard me telling someone my e-mail address on the phone while i was on the train and bugged me for a beta invite i was boring and just got first.last but my name's unique-ish so i could probably still get it today edit: this was also during the era when someone wrote some kind of halfassed filesystem that let you use gmail's at-the-time outlandish amount of free storage as some sort of janky cloud storage system, which like most people i never used but thought "huh that's neat" then a year later got ten times as much free cloud storage from someone else SoundMonkey fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Aug 31, 2020 |
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Aug 31, 2020 07:28
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Nowadays you need to pay $1000/year for an early adopter email address because (t)hey know everyone is only registering to namesquat short addresses.
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I got first.last@gmail.com too, but my name is very common. In my native language with relatively few speakers. So common in fact that I routinely receive email intended for one of my many namesakes.
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Aug 31, 2020 07:42
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remember when people were selling gmail invites on ebay
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Phone posted:remember when people were selling gmail invites on ebay the person who wanted an invite from me offered to give me five bucks but that seemed kinda shameful for us both
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ive gotten 11 invoices for window cleaning over the last year to a name twin, kinda impressive that they havent gone to collections yet
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Volmarias posted:The TSA not following their own rules? Next you'll tell me that valuables can go missing in checked luggage too!
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I got a spreadsheet of delinquent accounts for some Euro company complete with amounts and full contact info last month. Nothing should surprise me, but who the gently caress conducts business that way?!
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Phone posted:remember when people were selling gmail invites on ebay thanks isnoop
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DrPossum posted:I got a spreadsheet of delinquent accounts for some Euro company complete with amounts and full contact info last month. Nothing should surprise me, but who the gently caress conducts business that way?! have you missed the monthly news stories about someone phishing $50k off some company by just sending some low level accountant an invoice and saying 'ayyyy boss its overdue as gently caress'
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gently caress we could make so much money if we were unethical. These people aren't even trying.
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Perplx posted:your parents failed you if your full given name isn’t globally unique my first name is shared by like 2-3 other people, and my full name is unique, so i just never ever post either on the internet. people call me paranoid for some reason tho
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Truga posted:my first name is shared by like 2-3 other people, and my full name is unique, so i just never ever post either on the internet. people call me paranoid for some reason tho we all know your name is james
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Truga posted:my first name is shared by like 2-3 other people, and my full name is unique, so i just never ever post either on the internet. people call me paranoid for some reason tho one day my mom got many calls from other old ladies congratulating her on me becoming a religious radio personality. it turns out its another person with the same full name living in the same area.
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Agile Vector posted:iuuds
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akadajet posted:we all know your name is james james. bideo james.
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hey um is publishing your full name, bank name, bank account number and routing info, uh, bad? isn't that all you need to transfer money? cuz i was idly looking at kooky conspiracy sites and landed on a page where the person has posted what appears to be their full banking information so you can update your records if you want to send them money and that seems, uh, ill advised at best? they also think you can program people to become mermaids which is why i was actually there but this seems a bit more important
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Shame Boy posted:hey um is publishing your full name, bank name, bank account number and routing info, uh, bad? isn't that all you need to transfer money? never look at the bottom of a cheque
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Subjunctive posted:never look at the bottom of a cheque i'm aware, i just feel like there's a difference between that and broadcasting it on a website e: like my credit card number is on my credit card which i hand to the cashier and poo poo, that doesn't make it a good idea to take a picture of my credit card and put it online 
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it sure is less than ideal opsec because you're instantly giving stuff like: your name, a good guess as to where you live, your banking institution. Sounds like an effective first step for finding a ton more info on someone. That being said if you look at the registrar for the person's domain and all the same info is already public (aside from institution) and more accurate, then I guess you could assume you're not making things that much worse.
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MononcQc posted:it sure is less than ideal opsec because you're instantly giving stuff like: your name, a good guess as to where you live, your banking institution. Sounds like an effective first step for finding a ton more info on someone. That being said if you look at the registrar for the person's domain and all the same info is already public (aside from institution) and more accurate, then I guess you could assume you're not making things that much worse. private domain registration is pretty common these days
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Shame Boy posted:i'm aware, i just feel like there's a difference between that and broadcasting it on a website oh, it’s worse to publish it, but “handing card to cashier” is something that people in civilized places don’t have to do any more either in part to reduce exactly that risk I just think it’s funny how loose the controls on EFT are
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The Fool posted:private domain registration is pretty common these days nearly universal, I thought?
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last I checked, which I guess has been 5 years ish, network solutions still defaulted to public registration
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Subjunctive posted:never look at the bottom of a cheque a what? oh you mean those bits of paper we stopped using decades ago because they were horribly insecure?
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Shame Boy posted:hey um is publishing your full name, bank name, bank account number and routing info, uh, bad? isn't that all you need to transfer money? cuz i was idly looking at kooky conspiracy sites and landed on a page where the person has posted what appears to be their full banking information so you can update your records if you want to send them money and that seems, uh, ill advised at best? You can have a business account that only accepts deposits. They probably didn't do that. Subjunctive posted:never look at the bottom of a cheque My checks have an old address. Opsec through laziness.
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I don’t have checks because I am not elderly
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I still have checks because for the longest time I still had to use them to pay rent.
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I have checks for the sole purpose of paying rent since NYC rent is too high for any non-check cash transfer solution. It sucks.
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