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on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:02PM
from the some-things-only-exist-as-a-warning-to-others dept.
from the some-things-only-exist-as-a-warning-to-others dept.
Ars Technica has an article over the background behind Hotmail and how it aquired the stigma it has since its purchase back in 1997 for $450 million. Over the years it served as a showcase for several types of failure, including the inability of Windows servers to work in production or to scale.
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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday January 02 2018, @07:40PM (4 children)
It has become harder to do this now that more services demand phone numbers.
Gmail is particularly bad in that you could make an account without a phone number (last time I checked) but draconian "unusual activity" detection will often permanently lock your account away for some arbitrary and unknown reason, and the only recourse is to give up a phone number.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:00PM
Trick there is to use two factor with the Authenticator App or the Yubikey. [yubico.com] No phone number needed. One key will serve for a bunch of different accounts from a bunch of providers.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:03PM
Oh, and the "unusual activity" alerts usually amounted to accessing the account via a cellular network which bridges to the internet at some random place which changes hour by hour in some cases. Very annoying. 2FA solves that.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @08:53PM (1 child)
https://smsreceivefree.com/country/usa [smsreceivefree.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday January 02 2018, @10:08PM
I think I might have used a service just like that (same layout, maybe same website), as well as a couple of other ones in an attempt to trick Google. But Google had blacklisted the numbers, making them utterly useless. I certainly like the idea though and it seems like something that could be used for other purposes.
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