People should have a separate card for online payments and have just enough money on it for a payment.
I know that I am naïve :)
Back to the article: Weak point was a password that lead to another merchant not using 3D secure.
It seems from the article that bad actors have fully automated system, so (big) merchants should have handle automatic login attempts from the same ip address with different accounts. I see it from our wordfence logs that ip rotation is not so quick so it could be handled with some permanent ip blocking.
I agree with the seperate card. That was my seperate card and luckily the amount was not quite big because of that.
>Weak point was a password that lead to another merchant not using 3D secure
Well leaking a password shouldn't cause leaking a whole ass credit card data imo. The same data is printed on physical receipts the markets print, sometimes 4 digits, sometimes 10 digits. It's still possible to brute force from unattended physical receipts on the market.
My previous bank provided this virtual card service on demand. You create the card for a single purchase with a specific amount and that’s it. I moved to an other bank when getting an affordable mortgage loan became impossible in it for me.
Last time I have updated (half a year ago) it deleted tabs. And since that time I haven’t been brave enough to update it again as I have too many tabs unsaved :)
I have not lost any Sublime tab in 15 years (I have tabs this old).
Sublime also saves a backup of its state files next to the state files in your home dir, so you can restore in case anything ever goes wrong (e.g. bugs in the new version).
The .sublime_session state files are JSON, easy to read for a human.
> spending an hour making up names for random junk files
That is completely unnecessary. You can just backup the '.sublime_session' file that contains all that before an upgrade if you are worried. Sublime already stores all its state in 1 file; manually spreading that across N files seems unfun busywork. A quick web search reveals that by the way.
(I perpetually have 40 Sublime windows open, each one with tens to hundreds of tabs. My 'Auto Save Session.sublime_session' is 70 MB.)
Article mentions a book "The AI Con" that argues that much of what is labeled "artificial intelligence" is a misleading term that obscures ordinary automation while concentrating power in a small number of technology firms.
So fear-mongering seems to be just a tool how to get attention and more customers.
“This has resulted in fractured attention, anxiety, and sadly, a diminished sense of place and belonging even with the connectivity the internet could offer.”
Do you think this might also be related to recent people’s estrangement from housing?
Housing seems to become a commodity as other things…
Muscles that are not used weaken. Back before mobile phones, it was common to memorize entire phone numbers. And before Google, we used to be able to remember web addresses.
Mainframe terminals were nasty, I remember them. Similar high keys to recent keyboards that are so liked by gamers… but I get it. My dentist had a carpal tunnel that needed surgical procedure.
If I don’t use mouse all day my hands are pretty much all right.
Good mouse and keyboard is a key to productivity.
Everytime I see someone using touchpad I don't get it. My fingers would be on fire in 10 minutes. People don't know what they're getting themselves into.
Mainframe terminals seemed to have the keyboards at a very high angle. Maybe that was to simulate the key height differences on mechanical typewriter, but for a computer keyboard I prefer them to be as flat as possible. I have not had any problem with CT since using flat keyboards.
I know that I am naïve :)
Back to the article: Weak point was a password that lead to another merchant not using 3D secure.
It seems from the article that bad actors have fully automated system, so (big) merchants should have handle automatic login attempts from the same ip address with different accounts. I see it from our wordfence logs that ip rotation is not so quick so it could be handled with some permanent ip blocking.
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