safe space
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How can you make a purchase or apply for credit online just by verifying an email address? That makes no sense.
Payment processing is usually handled by a third party (PayPal, Stripe). Signing up for the platform is email verification step. When you signed up here of Facebook or Twitter you didn’t need to enter all of that information.
I can see you feel there is little chance to get hacked anywhere but that site and nothing is going to change your mind but trust me you are susceptible to your info being stolen from many different ways. I work in a bank and see it everyday.
It’s more about the scale and competency of the teams that each one is employing to deal with security. Everything is vulnerable on the web. No one doubts that. Not sure why you would imply that I felt otherwise.
Equifax, Under Armour (My fitness pal), Dubsmash, Zynga, Adobe and Yahoo have all been hacked in the past few years. I think most of those are pretty large scale and should have a competency team. The point is giving this company a SS# doesn't make you any more or less likely to get info stolen.
Sowing the seeds of GOP insurrection. The FBI never had it so easy.
Half assed would be giving them too much of an ***. Using free trial software for a site that was supposed to be a platform for the entire right? That's amatuer hour BS.
I won't say I'll never be convinced, but it will be hard to convince me that this wasn't a best case scenario merely a grift. Considering what they were asking for to get verified, it wouldn't surprise me if it was a con for identity theft.
If another message board I visit to get hacked and info is stolen, all they get is my posting history, email address, and password. There isn't much they can do with that. You get my drivers license and social security # though? Well my life can potentially turn to hell for months to years.
If you use the same username and password to login to a message board that you do to login to your bank, paypal, amazon, etc then yes there is plenty they can do with that.
I believe that’s for people that want to be verified, like the blue check mark on Twitter.
Was the Manatee on his way to Subway when he was accosted by two men in red maga hats shouting this is Trump Country?
You are in the minority when it comes to that.
Yep. There’s a lot of people of adult age who aren’t very adultly, and yes I realize that isn’t a real world in terms of the dictionary but I’m making it up because it works.
Ok I laughed a little. Reminded me of Will Farell as the old prospector.
“I’ve been called sleazy, smelly, stinky and Chinese”
