...and then Visa gives you your money back.
And you're paying a lot to Visa for this service. Visa/MC announced in fact that they are increasing credit card processing fees to deal with fraud: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
You're paying far more in credit card processing fees than makes sense for the service and the insurance against fraud provided.
There's a very real cost of maanging cash, and that cost is far far higher than credit card fees, and system outages.
This is not true. The Bundesbank did a report on this in 2019.
(https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/800766/0462923c3587a2d98f2c2db5b71047ae/mL/2019-06-kosten-zahlungsmittel-data.pdf)
The report found that transactions under €50 were cheapest to process with cash. Transactions over €50 were cheapest to do with Girocard, a German interbanking payment system. At no point were MC/Visa cheaper.
Whatever it is, we have been dealing with this and a host of other issues from them for years.
Absolutely love the boards, and some of the staff is really cool, but the company really is abusive when it comes to this sort of stuff.
Thanks for the kind words! We're very proud of our support department and their close integration with the technical team.
>Which has been true since the first person ever sat for a passport or drivers license photo.
Yeah but those were done with very different technology.
For instance, my state added the photo to the driver's license but, by law, didn't authorize or intend to create a central catalog of photos. The law merely said the state could add a photo to the license. Years later when they went to digital licenses, the state just adopted the central database. And as time has gone on, they have increased the quality of the photos captured so they can be used for biometric matching. Several generations of technology improvements have occurred and yet the state still never got authority to keep a central photo archive. Taking a mile from an inch.
In the same way, the passport has you send in two pictures. But there is a world of difference between operating a central passport photo database with facial recognition, and having a paper file somewhere with the 2nd picture sitting in it, which can only be referenced manually by a human.
So this Tesla isn't worse at all in that case. Sure it could be better, but it's not autopilot is increasing the danger in this situation compared to a car with no automatic features.
The summary is wrong that Vivaldi is a fork of old Opera (the Presto engine), it is in fact the same Blink engine that powers Chrome and new Opera, but with brand new chrome (non-capital, aka the interface around the engine) which is recreating the power-user features of old Opera rather than the cut-down interfaces that other browsers are working towards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well, yes. Obviously. If "they" compromise at a level below what we are capable of seeing - for example baseband controllers on every brand of motherboard that we own, then there's nothing we can do about it. There's nothing anyone can do about that, including the theoretical "run my own email server from home".
So I don't waste much sleep worrying about that case, because there's nothing I could about it. We do everything we can to ensure security - for example airgapped internal networks with physically separate switching hardware rather than VLANs to avoid the risk of compromised switch firmware.
If that's still too much risk for you, the choice is to get offline entirely. We're not in that business, we're in the business of providing a really usable email service with the best security protections that we can provide without compromising the usability to the point that people won't use it.
Thanks for the plug. We definitely recommend that users who are concerned about security use GPG with our servers via the standard IMAP/SMTP protocols. We have very good standards support, and as others have pointed out in this thread - if we ran GPG server-side, you'd be delegating the security to us anyway, because we would see plaintext versions of your communication.
For the best security, you should definitely be running the encryption on equipment under your control (and not 0wned under you... which is your own lookout in that scenario)
We run encrypted channels between our datacentres - we're not trusting telco pipes to be private.
Oops, that was me - I managed to get logged out through not posting here for so long.
Cloudflare only helps with web.
Spamhaus - lovely, but the traffic is already coming down your uplink by then - we were already firewalling it all, doesn't help.
(FastMail Ops btw)
But we have a solution in place now, so we're in a lot nicer place than we were on Sunday when we were first hit.
Oh cool - can I have user ID 666 then, since you won't need it any more?
Anything that needs more than FB or SMS I just use email. My email delivers fast, and straight to my watch/phone/ipad/laptop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The watch is more convenient when it's on my wrist, but it doesn't film as well.
No, nobody has noticed that:
http://www.smh.com.au/business...
They're just imaginging things. The data says it's bullshit.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
