So we can be in as much debt as the US?

Out of all the countries in the world, he made a deal with one country. I would call that 'ignoring Trump'.

Thankyou, you should be an editor on Slashdot. It would be better now than being an unpaid slave doing their job for them.

Not quite. The idea is still something you have vs something you know. Passwords even if they are stored on your authenticator device as secured and not automatically transmitted over the network, unlike passkeys / MFA.

Even if both are stored on your device it still presents two very different attack surfaces that must be compromised.

Except that the passwords aren't "online". Authenticator runs locally on the device and is secured by whatever hardware security system is in place. There may be a sync function between devices, and an encrypted backup stored online, but what is being discussed is actively not "online only".

In addition to that Microsoft Authenticator supports multiple fallback systems, including typing in an offline stored single use code.

Dude this has happened multiple times, and it is super trivial. This isn't some theoretical attack. This is actively exploited by common criminals. Shit man Veritas on Youtube did it to Linus Tech Tips only a few weeks ago to demonstrate how absolutely trivial this is. It's a very simple social engineering hack.

No business has 100% uptime. Today it's cashless systems, tomorrow it's a power outage preventing you opening your register. Close up shop and open again tomorrow. If you can't survive the day without business then you were going to go bankrupt shortly anyway, and your customers will live without a sandwich.

You ignore your own generation. Those who didn't grow up with trackers in their pockets none the less grew up with email inboxes full of spam and advertisements and guess what happened... nothing. The world has gone to absolute shit, there's few things I could care less about right now than some advertising fuck send me a promotional email because they know I bought milk and a dildo last week.

Presumably do what desperate people do, and go on a murderous rampage against the government with the problem solving itself. Seriously the government can fuck you up in countless ways, pretending that cash vs card is some issue is hilarious. If you piss of someone in the government to that extent, your line of credit is the least of your worries.

Nothing, because I live in a place with data protection laws, and I am a man of the 90s and have seen my inbox flooded with spam of all sorts, and it has had no effect on me so far. I frankly don't give a fuck if someone tries to sell me something, hasn't worked in the past 30 years.

So like losing your wallet only not as bad since you still have your ID card and public transport card?

I think that's an oversimplification. Canadas economy is far more diverse than America's. Canada always does better during hard economic times. For example following the pandemic Canada had the lowest inflation in the g7 behind only Japan.

Ok I'll bite then. What do liberal women have to do with America being a horrible place to live by all trustworthy accounts?

I was only able to find a known instance of it happening once. The important thing to understand is that the cult leader first convinced people to starve themselves. I doubt even Trump can do that with the American population.

OK so Trump is about to be played by Canada then.

I stopped reading at liberal women. Just seems like an attempt to conflate the issue with a totally different conversation.