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Comment Re:You mean shit that never, ever happened. (Score 1) 215

It's possible he's just a useful idiot for the Russians. When Russia provided him hacked emails from the DNC he ran with it even though there was nothing of substance in them. Didn't see any publication of messages from the RNC at the time despite them also getting hacked (though maybe Russia kept those to themself).

Comment Re:And the point is...? (Score 3, Informative) 38

A few reasons:
1. Providing a phone number can expose more personal information that some people would like as the phone number might tie to other information through external databases. A username would only be able to do that through Signal's databases.
2. People don't want to be contacted via phone/sms and don't want to share that
3. Many 2FA still use SMS which is vulnerable to a sim-swapping attack if the attacker knows the phone number

Comment Re:We need to say "no" (Score 1) 26

Basically because they're really cheap and "work" out of the box. It IS possible to reflash the Wyze cams with new firmware and you can use a wyze-bridge software running on a server to fix some of the connectivity issues if you connect it to a local service, but it's a bit of a pain to get setup.

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