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People hated him because he spoke the truth.

At that point go with a ridiculously long password to further decrease the odds of a lucky guess.

If the password is changed while the Planck Cruncher is doing its thing, and it changes to something that the PC has already guessed and tested negative, the PC is screwed.

Hint: Change your password regularly.

No.

In the real world having an actual high quality lengthty password is enough to deter anyone who is trying random accounts to move on for easier targets and anything that someone has physical access to, like law enforcement who confiscated something, will have an easier time bypassing the username and password process.

Changing passwords frequently leads to easier to break passwords, especially when you follow the practice of using a different one for different systems.

So my second paragraph…

I didn’t miss it, since my entire post is about manipulation and the second paragraph is about scale.

I’ve just accepted that if a bot interaction has the same impact on me as someone who is making up a fictional backstory, I’m not really worried wheter it is a bot or not. A bot shilling for Musk or a person shilling for Musk because they bought the hype are basically the same thing.

In my opinion the main problem with bots is not individual acccounts pretending to be people, but the damage they can do en masse through a firehose of spam posts, comments, and manipulating engagement mechanics like up/down votes. At that point there is no need for an individual account to be convincing because it is lost in the sea of trash.

It took a minute to sound out minute.

Yes, at the time local calls were basically within the same city in Kansas and long distance was between multiple local companies that all charged a lot to cross networks.

Out of state calls were through a national carrier, which is why they were cheaper. If I rememeber correctly the in state calls were like 5x the out of state calls and he was expecting it to be less for the shorter distance, like tens of dollars instead of hundreds.

In the late 90s, a roomate ran up our $12 phone bill to over $300 by calling his girlfriend who lived 60 miles away because he didn’t know it cost more per minute than him calling someone outside the state.

The current pricing is so much better than ut was back then.

Seems pointless if everything is redacted.

Whois is extremely helpful for non-malicious purposes just like phone books used to be.

Every single state is in the 90-109 range, so it tells us that every state has an Average IQ. If we believe the data.

Which doesn’t really tell us anything, since that is how averages work.

It is just a free trial with the long term goal of getting people to subscribe when it expires.

“Please don’t force us to advertise our services to our victims!”

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The fact that there was a shift in who dominates browser share from Netscape to Internet Explorer to Chrome suggests that the amount of complexity is going to encourage a market monopoly as long as someone breaks the standards in a way that gives them a small advantage. I don’t know if the alternatives would have a different outcome, as they may be simple now, but bloat may be inevitable.

Having security cameras that malicious businesses sell so they can scrape your data and share video with the police without your informed consent is a dystopian nightmare.

Having your own security system that is only accessed by you and those you intentionally share it with is not.

I can’t remotely see if an important package was delivered with a regular doorbell.

That would also require a lawyer since it gets into the terms and conditions and other legalese

That would be something the company would need to answer.

I know a regular bank would need records for at least 7 years after closing an account so they have a record the account was closed, even if you had no other activity. An online account might need to be deactivated or closed or whatever term they use for ‘can’t do anything with the account’ for 7 years if they treat that like closing an account.

Contacting their support would be the only way to get a clear answer on their policy and how it applies to your account, and then talk to a lawyer if you don’t agree with their policy.

A common legal requirement for record keeping is 7 years in the US, as they noted in the quote, although some types of records may need to be kept longer. We are not 7 years out from 2018, so still within that standard window.

I have no idea if there is a way around it, and a lawyer would be the right person to provide advice.

As for changing 2fa when you no longer have the phone, the best you can do without a lawyer is contact their support and escalate to a supervisor if they don’t have a way to update that ready to go. First level support will generally not be able to handle that kind of thing, so be ready to escalate. No need tonstart off with any legal threats, just plainly state what the situation is and hownimportant it is to you and there is a high chance of getting the 2fa updated even if you can’t get the account closed.