Scan your passport to join our social network.

[kranzkrone@quasselkopf.de]

@aral
Look, this is what a modern scam for the good of the people should look like. 🤯
@lain @wraith

#EU #europe #W #socialNetwork #identityVerification #surveillance #privacy #humanRights #democracy #data

[holdenweb@freeradical.zone]

@freci @aral That’s the problem with systems designed by lazy idiots. Nothing but the happy paths appear to have received much (sometimes any) thought.

[holdenweb@freeradical.zone]

@aral @TimWardCam @freci @noybeu They don’t?
The bastards won’t let me see it! And they certainly don’t include it in search results!

[khaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hsza @lain @aral @vonKordke why are you arguing with a troll lol

[vonkordke@social.vivaldi.net]

@khaleer @hsza @lain @aral yea, it's waste of time

[lennybacon@infosec.exchange]

@aral @Julianoe @lain Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM!

[freci@piaille.fr]

@holdenweb @aral that’s intentional. There are various forms available to contact the customer service without being logged in but if you use an email address associated with a LinkedIn account they will redirect you to the FAQ instead of sending your question and if you use another email they will tell you they can’t do anything because they cannot confirm the account belongs to you. They apparently cannot just send a mail to verify your email address even though it’s apparently enough if you forgot your password.

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@lennybacon @Julianoe @lain Well, Hitler did kill himself but I’m not sure if that counts.

[bard@asphodel.rip]

@freci @aral I had an issue like this once with PayPal. I'd made the account as a kid and when they found out, they locked it and told me to make a new one, but a bank account can only be tied to one PayPal account, so I needed to delete the old one. My account was so limited I couldn't delete it. Not only had to upload my ID, but their online chat literally always said it was outside business hours somehow so I had trouble getting anyone to come allow a deletion. What eventually worked was DMing them on Twitter. Was sorted out in under 24 hours. Of course I waited years before getting that desperate, so I'll probably always have a bit of a hatred for PayPal.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@aral @lain The same one that turned out to just be rebranded Bluesky? So the one where scans of your passport would be stored using American protocols, if not on American servers?

[khaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@vonKordke @hsza @lain @aral it was about you

[vonkordke@social.vivaldi.net]

@khaleer @hsza @lain @aral really? But I'm not the one that is screaming and calling names. If I'm trolling, how would you describe his behavior? It's certainly not normal

[freci@piaille.fr]

@aral and when they say "send them my ID" they really mean "send my ID to Thiel's Persona", this goes without saying