What for? It was a mandatory step but my wife and I will manage the credit through an app on her phone. Minimally, I should have the option to waive it.
I know I'm in the minority but I value privacy higher than convenience. I'm aware that not having a smart phone does not automatically equal total privacy, but I just cannot get myself to have a personal tracking device on me 24/7.
Well, my case is the best proof of that: the phone number I ended up using was my mom's.
It's most definitely baloney because I also had to provide ID. So, certainly there is no way I could identify myself "even more" by giving them a phone number than by giving them a government issued ID.
My wife and I had an appointment last week to apply for a line of credit. We talked it all through with the clerk and decided to go for it, so he started the whole process on his computer.
His jaw dropped half-way through when he asked for my wife's and my phone number, and I had to tell him that I don't own a smart phone.
Turns out you must have a smart phone because the system sends you some kind of code to verify your identity. Let that sink in: I am sitting in front of the clerk, but in order to identify me, he needs me to give him some phone number.
The only way we could finalize the application is by me asking my mother whether I could use her phone number briefly to get this over with. She forwared the code to my wife's phone. That worked in the end -- but so much for "identifying me".
Amazing - an acquaintance of ours when we lived in Germany a couple of years ago had a similar idea. But she found that telemedicine + prescription drugs (and possibly advertising law) are among the most regulated areas in a country already known for its red tape.
I didn't follow up what became of her startup idea, but there's no way she could have ever gotten it off the ground in just two months, like the guy from the article and his brother. More like two years...
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For Emacs, I agree with the maintainer's analysis that this is really a git bug: what happens is that Emacs runs `git ls-files` and that triggers a script execution.
So, the attack vector here is the following: attacker provides a malicious script in a .git directory, packaged for download. If the user unpacks the the package and merely opens a file, Emacs runs `git ls-files` which in turn executes the malicious script.
However, while I agree that this is a flaw in git, and Emacs should rightfully expect that running an "ls" command should be considered harmless, I do not agree with the stance that this does not require a reaction on the part of the Emacs maintainers: Now that you've been made aware of this unfortunate git behavior, I think some steps should be taken to not trigger it. That is, the functionality that runs `git ls-files` should be double checked (do we really need it? can we avoid the malicious side-effects? etc.)
But in general, I think obsessing over the monospace font you use for coding is, ultimately, bike shedding. I've used a lot of different fonts over the year, not because I was trying to find the best one, but because I used the default font of whatever tool I was using at the time, and - guess what - I was fine with it every time.
Also, the thought that we as a married couple are not an entity is strange to me, but I guess that's the modern way of thinking, and I am old.