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Seems like. Also being a customer since 2023 without a single abuse report, and 3 total tickets is quite sketchy.
@beanman109 right
Shame!
No, not really. Everyone should be well aware that not buying from an official offer and thereby hiding in the faceless mass of generic clients bears the risk of being singled out. I've rejected multiple custom offers by now but making them is still a nice gesture. If i take it or not is fully on me. Privacy has a price. Big deal.
Full disclosure: I've whined to @SoftShellWeb for not wanting to post their order number, so maybe i'm a tiny bit of a hypocrite when i proclaim "Big Deal" but oh well...
Okay at least two then, probably I did a lot of them and don't remember all
yeas I see ya, I need that cheap dealz
Hehe there are some on OGF
It is really bonkers if the management decided to do so without succumbing to any legal pressure or state intervention.
I mean, won't it hurt their business? I do not follow this.
Not really. People just are like this these days and trust me this is a rough shape of the things to come. I mean, it's not like you are wrong there's a huge legislative push into doing away with all the outdated cruft that somewhat served as a safety net against total surveillance. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time and it's basically an ongoing process by now.
It's convenient and a ton of people has long given up any expectation of privacy or autonomy. Not giving up your data will more and more complicate things for you and at this point it's just normal to them to give away their face, their fingerprints, their private life, their every move, their medical history, ... It's all out there at various not exactly benevolent companies. They don't understand that others might still think this to be a bad idea or even scary and detrimental to society.
Yes, I am slowly giving up too, given the state of the self-hosting world, esp. email. You will be asked to post an imprint somewhere public at known addresses to your MX as per the RFCs and not use X DNS hosting because Spamhaus won't like it and Y hosting provider and Z TLD.
I think people are just scared to move their data and want to keep their setup rolling however possible. But I believe a majority of LET like audience would just move. The provider has gone over the top with this step.
Yeah, the open internet is not really all that open anymore and the trend will continue. Most people who care are pretty loudly thinking about what to do when places like LET stop being feasible too (so much open spaces have already disappeared) by now. I'm certain not going to use some kind of fully sanitized papers-please-internet. Or at least not more than i absolutely have to.
Exactly and it's like this with 1000 other smaller or bigger things. You either get in line or you'll have to deal with the consequences. Most people aren't very good at dealing with consequences (or to be fair they usually see little point in doing so). Just doing what's expected from you is way more convenient and by now this is an automatism for a lot of people. At this point refusing to use even just certain services or technologies will put a very real strain on people's life.
I don't think a simple liveness check is enough @jmginer
After all, someone could wear a hyper realistic silicone mask and pretend to be human. That would completely defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?
To ensure maximum security, I'd recommend requiring every customer to submit ALL of the following info, otherwise, how can you really be sure there's a human behind the account?
I don't have most of those... Do you think it's OK if i just scan the bonus card of my vape shop instead? I'm a good customer. I have like 7 stamps at least.
and when it comes to @emgh you must submit a drawing... and of his.
Ya should be fine, just make sure to add your condoms and underwear on the picture.
They can verify me through the taste of my bunghole, its unique too
Considering the fact I can't pass this test, it seems I'm in fact a bot who just thinks he is a human.
Guess I should have installed the update that was suppose to fix the personality disorder thing 🤷
RealID is now available in all states. However, it's not mandatory. When I renewed my DL recently, they asked if I wanted it. Oregon was the last state to adopt it for...no obvious reason. We do weird things here.
If you're going to fly, you need it (or you need to take your passport along to the airport), but you can get a non-RealID if you want one because...who knows.
Because...what has changed? This dire risks you list were risks 15 years ago.
But if it's a "liveness" check then why not call me and we'll have a chat? I can generate a realistic fake selfie using ChatGPT in 10 seconds. I can't fake a phone call.
So it's really not "liveness checking" at all, right?
Why do I have to submit this twice? In case it changes after the first time I submit it?
When someone tells you to stop thinking, it's time to start thinking twice as hard. My 2c of advice in life.
Technology has come a long way. Most intelligent systems can recognize a person even if they try to hide. Yesterday, a pedophile kidnapped a little girl in Moscow and then killed her. He was caught within 24 hours thanks to the many cameras installed in Moscow. Cars are stolen 20-50 times less now. So there are advantages to a safe city and a safe internet.
But biometric verification for renting a VPS for $1-2 looks too...
So the issue is that you want to hold people accountable? If all you're asking for is a selfie, then I'm disturbed about how you're going to use that to "hold people accountable". You aren't law enforcement. If someone uses a stolen card, that's not your problem, that's the bank's problem. Your one and only job is to kick them out, and lack of a selfie does not hamper that.
I suggest you also fix the lie on your website that claims it's simply to distinguish humans from bots, if this is the case.
You also have to submit your criminal history twice, apparently. Just in case you commit a crime in between the answers.
Yes. Its 2026 after all, you never know what i might be in the next 10 seconds
I did an exercise, once I had silly ego fight with someone from EU and moved all my hosting, registrar to Asia as a challenge. The conclusion was, we cannot survive without proper US/EU based providers/registrars even for Asian locations. I challenged it and won! It worked. Except for a personal domain.cctld, I bought it directly from the registry/manager. I think it works better like that as I have put my DNS glue records there for multi-jurisdiction game, just in case.
But it was a lot of work and I had to resort to self-hosting a lot of things starting with authoritative DNS. The reliance is not there as I only have 2 pops in South East and Far East Asia, soon another one in India hopefully when I have funds or work/job.
So, as a supreme (jk jk) self-hosting advocate, I say: challenge the status quo or go with the flow.
Certifications aren't there to protect you from data breaches, they're there to protect the business from lawsuits when data breaches do occur. They really mandate the absolute minimum in terms of good security practices where the only step down is "shocking negligence".
the actual KYC should be like that's on porn sites and whiskey sites.
Are you 18 years older? Click yes or no.
If yes, KYC done. if no, back to google.com
(because Internet was made to make our life simple and ez)
the only times i've ever had to verify my id were with greencloud and, more recently, dartnode. i was kinda iffy about sending dartnode my driver's license since their id verification is ai-assisted, and they feed your personal documents (driver's license, passport, etc.) into some gemini model. but i had to do it, otherwise no $99/year dedicated server
at this point, i guess any provider could legally get me to hand over all my personal information if they bribed me with a $7/year vps or a $99/year dedi 💀
i need to learn some self-control. please, nobody tempt me with deals like those again.
Sure, a lot is possible when some actual resources are thrown at it but a simple theft case would probably not get much more than a report and an estimated picture given to local police patrols. Actually for how hopeless the whole thing is they happen to find a surprising amount of criminals that way (mostly repeat offenders that stick around the same high crime areas for various reasons) but overall the rates are as bad as the police's funding for everyday cases. Maybe there's more resources for this in Russia but around the metropolitan cities here chances of just getting lost 5 minutes into the run are astronomical.
Surveillance is a stop-gap measure when the real solution is to improve living situations (to reduce theft) and mental health (to reduce the kind of insanity you described). That's why there are plenty of cities that have low crime despite a lack of pervasive surveillance.
Not to mention, the real world is a lot more dangerous than the internet, and literally the only way the internet can ever be really dangerous is when it intersects with the real world. Surveillance monitoring a dangerous street is in no way equivalent to surveillance monitoring your personal emails. That would be more akin to surveillance not on streets, but within everyone's own houses and bedrooms. A lot of crime occurs behind closed doors, but I don't see many people arguing that the government should install cameras and microphones on our ceilings.