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Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 66

Timing is everything.

If the circumstances are conducive to it, even the most paranoid person can get phished in a moment of distraction.

A famous, recent(ish) example is the operator of HIBP, who mistakenly fell for a credential phish because he was distracted and/or tired and the communication was something that he wasn't surprised by in the moment.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/b...

Comment Re:This ladies and gentlemen (Score 2) 222

Ok, except that we know of cases where people on death row were exhonorated of the crime. As in, a mistake was made.

People make mistakes and there is a lot of perverse incentives to nail someone for a crime. That incentive goes up, the greater the crime. The judicial system seems to operate on the "bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" philosophy.

As long as humans and human-made systems are in play, there are going to be mistakes, that's just a fact.

The death penalty has no tolerance for mistakes. Therefor it should not be allowed as a possible outcome.

Comment Re:Beat the rush: blacklist the entire TLD now (Score 2) 52

Not like .com, which is totally free of scammers and spammers... /s

In this day and age of profuse TLDs, what's one more?

Once nice thing about new TLDs is that newcomers can have a shot at a short domain name.

When I was allowed to register a .me domain, I jumped at the chance to have my initials as a domain name.

Though, there are still, today, systems that don't allow anything other than .com e-mail addresses, which is bonkers.

Comment Re:Make them pay (Score 1) 103

I would assume that they do this.

Emergency services should also be billing the taxi operator. Which, I am sure that they do this as well.

I certainly got billed by MNDOT when my car went off the road after hitting an ice patch on I35. $800 to re-sod (nevermind that I was in the same ditch along with half a dozen other cars and semi tractors).

Comment Re:Don't store personal data, baby photos on OneDr (Score 1) 54

I run a personal server that makes nightly versioned backups of all of my OneDrive data since that is where all of my phone's camera images end up.

I maintain several e-mail accounts that are backups for each other and have as much protection as is possible to apply to them.

Seems like a no-brainer to me to back up the things that you care about and not to rely 100% on any one provider, no matter how big.

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