Nah, just America. In Australia when they say 'unlimited' by law the connection has to be without any limit. So the only ones that post 'unlimited downloads' are the ones who oversell their back-haul and run like shite during peak times.
Australia. Basically, if you ever bounce a cheque or make any kind of fee appear as a result of cashing one, they wont approve it.
Reason we started using them was a guy came into one of the other stores (who our owner owned) and had a bank cheque from his own, named, account. Buys a laptop and other stuff with it. Then goes to the bank and cancels the bank cheque. Used to be once issued they were practically legal tender.
Where I used to work we had a cheque underwriter. Basically, when we got a cheque we would need to call up and feed all the details off it into the phone-service, they would give us an auth number to write on it. If the cheque bounces or is otherwise bad, we still got our money and THEY would undertake the hunting of the person.
Downsides:
3% processing fee
Takes about 10 mins
Customers who pay regularly by cheque are usually arseholes and will complain bitterly about the above two downsides, while holding up other people.
And you try and tell the young people today that and they wont believe you!
More than likely the owners of this place saw it and thought it was a great idea.
Well, you learn how to overtone sing and we can find out
Right, but if you were in school, and given the task of writing a program that accepts, stores and evaluates passwords, grabbing such a piece of code would be considered a 'bad thing'.
Saying in your comments that you found a 'method for neatly measuring password strength and reimplemented it' would, however, demonstrate that not only can you find code that you would need but CAN code and implement the solution.
First option is out. Not only do the USB ports get disabled on such machines, but you can't take a USB stick anywhere near them, any more than you could a phone.
Second option suffers the same "can't get a phone within 10 meters of the machine" that the parent mentioned.
Third, if you can pay a person with security clearance to do this then it isn't a computer problem.
Fourth, people who do this work are not as rigorously checked as their workers/software people, but you will note that all the secure places I know of run custom bios firmware that have checksums to stop this.
Yes, I know people who work at these places, both with clearance (operators and such) and techies that support them, getting to their secure networks/air-gapped networks is not trivial and certainly cannot be done with a USB stick anywhere on your person.
*hears a loud popping*
Oh gods it is starting!
But yes, I came in to see if anyone had picked up on this. Having governments restrict the duration they hold potentially personal data for is a good thing.
But with great power comes great responsibility, aren't they standing up and taking that responsibility now?
And yet this exact 'verification' was a way to steal control of accounts a while back.
Basically, apple asked for the first four digits of your CC for secure verification, Amazon asked for the last four. Each were happy to give the four digits at the opposite end of your account and, worse, Amazon would let you add a new CC to your account, verify yourself with that credit card, then provide the other four digits of your other card. This was used, successfully, to attack a person's Icloud account. I am not sure about now, but I really hope both companies have changed their policies, particularly in regards to phone support and scripted replied to requests for control of accounts.
Well, the thing is, the reporter is more than happy to pay the same fee as other companies (or the government) would pay to access it. The real kicker is, a similar request was made for a major public official and it was denied because it was 'personal information' which, if that is the case, then they MUST make this data available to the owner of it.
The trick is, of course, for them to have to make requests of every other telco in the country to check if numbers on the list are private. Although the thought that they give such data out to non-government businesses is a little disturbing.
Yeah, in Australia we have a new centralised medical records system that patients absolutely CAN access. Heck, all my doctors have my folder open as they chat with me most times. I have even asked to see things and have never been refused.
Hint, nvidia drivers are a good one to use. They use akami I believe, and you should be able to max out damn near any connection with a few files coming from there.
If they advertise it as unlimited, it should be unlimited. Download more please!
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