It's a car dealer. Douchebag is redundant.
It's a BMW dealer. Big douchebag is an understatement.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

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No. The host is compromised.

Even if the bank mailed you a copy of their real cert, the compromised host could just update the malware to fetch the real cert and display that when the user tries to view the cert's details.

Even if the bank handed you a copy of a UNIQUE cert they use for ONLY for you, IN PERSON, and you handed them your own UNIQUE client cert, the compromised host could just watch all the legit shit happen when you log in the first time, then fuck you in the ass with that legit information.

Even "2-factor" authentication with a RSA clock won't help - these codes are good for a window of time (to allow people time to enter them and to allow for latency, clock skew, etc.). A compromised host can just use the same valid code rapidly within that window. Some systems require you to enter two distinct codes for a transaction, but this doesn't solve anything either as a compromised host can just trick the user into thinking they're moving $100 into their account when the real transaction is moving $10000 into the attackers account.

True one-time use keys don't fix this either.

Whoosh.

0: Don't write and host your own malicious javascript.
1: Don't host third-party javascript.
2: Don't host third-party content without sanitizing it to ensure it doesn't cause users to load other third-party shit.

1 & 2 can be combined into a simpler, more secure rule: Don't host third-party content.

What if I want to convert to/from metric units? With Javascript I can click a button and have the page change all the values. Without Javascript I'd have to click a link instead!

What if I want to adjust the number of servings? With Javascript I can type in a value for servings and have the page tell me I need 2 and a half eggs. Without Javascript I'd have to type in a value and then hit the Enter key or click a Submit button!

What if I want to read user comments about the recipe? With Javascript, I can click a "Show Comments" "link" and just wait for the page to load comments. Without Javascript I'd have to click a "Show Comments" link and wait for the page to load comments!

What if I want to rate the recipe? With Javascript, I can give it a thumbs up or thumbs down, or give it 3.5/5 stars or little chef hats or whatever cutesy icon they want. Without Javascript, I'd have to click a button or use a drop down!

That's all avoidable by GPs "reasonable protection from the owner".

I wouldn't deal with the police at all. I'd deal with my card issuer. (They could design the scam this way, but I for one would be going to my card issuer's website and contacting them via whatever shitty webform they have.)
I wouldn't believe the card issuer would hand deliver a new card to me.
I don't think I've ever had to tell a rep my pin.
I would never hand my old card in to some courier, I'd destroy it.
I would not be reusing my pin.

Wrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.
An unauthorized charge is an unauthorized charge and you are not liable for unauthorized charges.

OffJacker or OffJack.

They measure the transfer rate of a single file in 1 direction.
USB 3 gets you 5 Gbps. 500 MBps after overhead. 450 is definitely achievable in real-world use with a decent USB controller.

SCSI over USB only really adds queuing, improving speed when many small reads/writes are performed, and you'd need an SSD supporting SCSI and an enclosure/adapter supporting SCSI over USB. Further, for large transfers plain USB 3 is just as fast, while having the benefit of being cheaper, and more readily available and compatible than SCSI over USB. Of course, straight SATA III (via eSATA if you want) is still faster.

USB 3 gets you 5 Gbps and has to be handled by the CPU.
SATA III gets you 6 Gbps without going through the CPU.

USB 3.1 promises to get you 10 Gbps (and lower overhead), but still has to go through the CPU.
And Thunderbolt is just a convoluted and expensive way of piping a limited number of PCIe lanes to a random physical port and requiring the user to buy an expensive cable. 10 Gbps or 20 Gbps. 40 Gbps in the next revision.

SATA Express / M.2 can get you 32 Gbps using 4 PCIe 3.0 lanes or 2 PCIe 4.0 lanes wrapped up in NVMe.
And you can always just throw more PCIe lanes at some controller (on-board or an via a PCIe slot) or some device directly if you want more bandwidth.

USB 3 will be the standard for external shit for a long time. The C connector and USB 3.1 are going to have a hell of a time gaining traction.
For people who want performance, SATA Express / M.2 using NVMe or other direct PCIe solutions win.

When blackboxed, even "return 5" is indistinguishable from a true random number generator.
People want noisy numbers, not random numbers. Which is a good thing, because a true random number generator will never exist.

Bazinga.

So now we're assuming dark matter exists and we know how much of it is in any given galaxy?
And we're correlating it to the "size" (singularity? event horizon? mass?) of a black hole?

I might as well correlate the amount of Leprechauns in my ass to the "price" of Bitcoin.

I'd like to see you trot that out the next time a cop or TLA employee is caught doing illegal shit as part of their illegal job duties and no one suffers any consequences.