Not the most sophisticated analysis, but decent journalism whose upshot is that phones aren't safe hardware tokens for two-factor authentication because it's so easy to port the number to a...
Not the most sophisticated analysis, but decent journalism whose upshot is that phones aren't safe hardware tokens for two-factor authentication because it's so easy to port the number to a different owner.
Not to mention that cellular carriers have crap security for ISPs.
Holy crap that was harrowing! It feels like the telecoms are just holding people’s identities behind a toy lock. I’m also surprised that despite accounts obviously having been stolen, Instagram...
Holy crap that was harrowing! It feels like the telecoms are just holding people’s identities behind a toy lock.
I’m also surprised that despite accounts obviously having been stolen, Instagram still hasn’t restored them to their original owners.
Not to diverge off-topic too much, but examples like this are among the reasons why I find anarchism (particularly anarchocapitalism) suspect as a political philosophy. When opaque contracts...
Not to diverge off-topic too much, but examples like this are among the reasons why I find anarchism (particularly anarchocapitalism) suspect as a political philosophy. When opaque contracts (a/k/a service agreements) are written with vastly unequal rights and responsibilities, there is no authoritative source of relevant law, there is no effective enforcement of relevant law, and there are substantial financial incentives for malfeasance without real risk of penalties - it's the Wild West out there, still.
I feel like things are already enough bad now with respect to punishing corporate negligence, I can only imagine how much worse it would be if there was literally no larger body to keep things in...
I feel like things are already enough bad now with respect to punishing corporate negligence, I can only imagine how much worse it would be if there was literally no larger body to keep things in check.
Not the most sophisticated analysis, but decent journalism whose upshot is that phones aren't safe hardware tokens for two-factor authentication because it's so easy to port the number to a different owner.
Not to mention that cellular carriers have crap security for ISPs.
Holy crap that was harrowing! It feels like the telecoms are just holding people’s identities behind a toy lock.
I’m also surprised that despite accounts obviously having been stolen, Instagram still hasn’t restored them to their original owners.
Not to diverge off-topic too much, but examples like this are among the reasons why I find anarchism (particularly anarchocapitalism) suspect as a political philosophy. When opaque contracts (a/k/a service agreements) are written with vastly unequal rights and responsibilities, there is no authoritative source of relevant law, there is no effective enforcement of relevant law, and there are substantial financial incentives for malfeasance without real risk of penalties - it's the Wild West out there, still.
I feel like things are already enough bad now with respect to punishing corporate negligence, I can only imagine how much worse it would be if there was literally no larger body to keep things in check.