Is there not a security concern of doing basic checks before handing out cash?
For instance, elderly woman gets a text message telling her the IRS needs $50k cash or they’ll take her house. The bank says they need a few days, she complains that the IRS wants it now…and then they help explain that it’s likely a scam.
I’d say the right to vote is more important than the right to bear arms. I’d say that’s especially true given the damage votes have caused in the last 3 months, versus the remedies applied by the second amendment to that damage.
Yes, we see them on the news after they’ve had an accidental discharge and murdered an innocent person, so they can say tearfully into the camera “I’ve always been a responsible gun owner.” And we all understand they are very much responsible for that person who is already dead, even if we’re not taking their gun away. So it’s okay, justice has been served.
Certainly nothing preemptive we could do to make it “100% of legal gun owners MUST take the 4 rules of safety seriously.”
To be very clear here, my outrage is not at being pranked with a rick roll. I’d be fine with decent politicians doing that on most days. It’s specifically with reversed courses on transparency regarding circumstantial evidence that the president was involved in sexual assault.
Obama gave out his birth certificate. Bernie Sanders shows his tax returns. The Republican Party is a team of liars that shares nothing.
I mentioned Bitwarden in my comment, and my frustration specifically comes from occasions that I had Account X ready in Bitwarden, started up an app that relied on Account X, but loaded an HTML login page that had no discernable controls to use that Bitwarden passkey; expecting entirely for it to exist in my Apple keychain, which I never use.
I think it’s very easy to claim this specific app / account was not implementing passkeys well. But if that’s the case, how can I guarantee any other accounts I move over won’t fuck it up somewhere? I haven’t seen anyone get the concept of passwords wrong, and even if they don’t understand how managers work, I have control of the copy-paste function and can even type a password myself if needed.
There’s been a lot of pain in the attempt to portray it as “Just click the passkey button, and that’s it! Your login is secured for life!”
No - Buddy. It is secured for this one specific device that I have biometric authentication for. What about my computer? What about my other computer that isn’t on the same operating system? I have a password manager that stores these things, why didn’t you save to that when I registered? Why is it trying to take this shit from my Apple Keychain when it’s in Bitwarden?
And, the next ultra-big step: How would a non-techie figure this shit out?
This reminds me of a story idea I had for a novel.
The police of a fantasy world are enacting blatant brutality and are low on accountability. A separate agency headed by a heroic character announces that some faction of terrorists has stolen a set of uniforms for these officers. They further clarify that citizens can identify genuine officers in this way:
Otherwise, citizens are encouraged to use weapons to protect themselves from unidentified men posing as police. (The obvious conclusion there is; this other agency stole the uniforms themselves and threw them away, just to provoke that change in behavior)
I know it’s exited the news cycle, but I still remember this was a big thing for the left and right to both agree on supporting. I’d very much like to prompt Trump for his opinion on the man to force him to take a side.
I’ve had an idea for a video game that intentionally makes talking more difficult, to get people to overcome the anxiety and value interactions more.
It’d be based on some old adventure games where players need to type certain words to garner a response, but use a number of assistive tech forms to:
Probably won’t ever happen but fun to consider.