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    Rage
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    I am fucking fed up with all that security stuff captcha, email confirmation, and even worse, code sent out to my phone to confirm X| X| X| Do they know that there are still people out there who do not carry their phone 24/7 ? Or who are working in other countries and do not have data there ? Damn ! Let me DECIDE about what security level I want to use. If I do not want to enter 10,000 codes to read my email or check my orders, please LET ME DO SO.

    Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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      I am fucking fed up with all that security stuff captcha, email confirmation, and even worse, code sent out to my phone to confirm X| X| X| Do they know that there are still people out there who do not carry their phone 24/7 ? Or who are working in other countries and do not have data there ? Damn ! Let me DECIDE about what security level I want to use. If I do not want to enter 10,000 codes to read my email or check my orders, please LET ME DO SO.

      Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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      dan sh
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      Was there some big leak or hacking? For me Amazon is showing up captcha to secure me since morning.

      "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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        Was there some big leak or hacking? For me Amazon is showing up captcha to secure me since morning.

        "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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        Rage
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        This is getting a standard for all websites and is really p****g me off at the present time. Forget your phone and you cannot connect to anything anymore.

        Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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          I am fucking fed up with all that security stuff captcha, email confirmation, and even worse, code sent out to my phone to confirm X| X| X| Do they know that there are still people out there who do not carry their phone 24/7 ? Or who are working in other countries and do not have data there ? Damn ! Let me DECIDE about what security level I want to use. If I do not want to enter 10,000 codes to read my email or check my orders, please LET ME DO SO.

          Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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          ZurdoDev
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          I agree. If my boss did not pay for my smart phone, I wouldn't even have one. But unfortunately, society is moving towards everything working based on a phone. A lot of youth these days do not even check email, they only do text on their phone. Anti-social media and smartphones are making society less social and dumber. :doh:

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            I am fucking fed up with all that security stuff captcha, email confirmation, and even worse, code sent out to my phone to confirm X| X| X| Do they know that there are still people out there who do not carry their phone 24/7 ? Or who are working in other countries and do not have data there ? Damn ! Let me DECIDE about what security level I want to use. If I do not want to enter 10,000 codes to read my email or check my orders, please LET ME DO SO.

            Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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            MarkTJohnson
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            I'm hating the Push method of 2FA that the employer has adopted. I open the phone app to wait for the message from the system and then have to wait for the system to receive my response. The flippin' six digit code is right there, I can type it faster than all these messages flying back and forth.

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              I am fucking fed up with all that security stuff captcha, email confirmation, and even worse, code sent out to my phone to confirm X| X| X| Do they know that there are still people out there who do not carry their phone 24/7 ? Or who are working in other countries and do not have data there ? Damn ! Let me DECIDE about what security level I want to use. If I do not want to enter 10,000 codes to read my email or check my orders, please LET ME DO SO.

              Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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              Lost User
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              It is not the fault of the sites, but the fact that every organisation (including our lunch club for 70 retired men) is required to implement the EU wide GDPR. And if you are really bored, go to your national Data Protection website and read all about it.

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                It is not the fault of the sites, but the fact that every organisation (including our lunch club for 70 retired men) is required to implement the EU wide GDPR. And if you are really bored, go to your national Data Protection website and read all about it.

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                MarkTJohnson
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                Whole new meaning of the overdub in America, "Forget You!", replaces ":elephant: You" on regular TV.

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                  Whole new meaning of the overdub in America, "Forget You!", replaces ":elephant: You" on regular TV.

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                  Lost User
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                  Ah, those Eurocrats know a thing or two about annoying the 'mercans. :laugh:

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                    I am fucking fed up with all that security stuff captcha, email confirmation, and even worse, code sent out to my phone to confirm X| X| X| Do they know that there are still people out there who do not carry their phone 24/7 ? Or who are working in other countries and do not have data there ? Damn ! Let me DECIDE about what security level I want to use. If I do not want to enter 10,000 codes to read my email or check my orders, please LET ME DO SO.

                    Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                    Scott Serl
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                    Yes, it is stupid and I don't even OWN a cell phone. I was on a site the other day, registering for an event, and cell phone was a required field.

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                      Yes, it is stupid and I don't even OWN a cell phone. I was on a site the other day, registering for an event, and cell phone was a required field.

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                      dandy72
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                      A few weeks I had a secondary MS account that needed its password reset. Whatever procedure I tried to follow eventually lead me to a page where the only thing I could do is enter a phone number so a code could be sent via SMS. Obviously that doesn't work with a landline. And I don't own a cell phone. Honestly.

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                        I am fucking fed up with all that security stuff captcha, email confirmation, and even worse, code sent out to my phone to confirm X| X| X| Do they know that there are still people out there who do not carry their phone 24/7 ? Or who are working in other countries and do not have data there ? Damn ! Let me DECIDE about what security level I want to use. If I do not want to enter 10,000 codes to read my email or check my orders, please LET ME DO SO.

                        Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                        Kirill Illenseer
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                        As someone with a brain, I'd like that too. Unfortunately, idiots tend to be too dumb to realize they're idiots. I'd like me a checkbox labeled "Look buddy, I'm not an idiot. I know better than to trust strangers on the internet and I don't run everything sent to me either, not turn off that annoyance!" but then idiots would check that, either because they think they indeed aren't idiots or because some crap YT tutorial told them to check that to disable this annoyance NOT informing them of the side effects or because some jerk friend told the same and viola, a company is under scrutiny for exposing their users to risks despite those users being so stupid, they deserve all bad that's happening to them. And especially with US-based companies, they're expected to babysit even the stupidest of users. The problem then is that there's no way to tell idiots from people with brains apart so they have to babysit everyone.

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                          I am fucking fed up with all that security stuff captcha, email confirmation, and even worse, code sent out to my phone to confirm X| X| X| Do they know that there are still people out there who do not carry their phone 24/7 ? Or who are working in other countries and do not have data there ? Damn ! Let me DECIDE about what security level I want to use. If I do not want to enter 10,000 codes to read my email or check my orders, please LET ME DO SO.

                          Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                          GenJerDan
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                          Yeah. I have to go through two security doors, grab my phone (which isn't allowed to be in my work area), walk up two flights of stairs to get outside...and wait for the security code to show up on my phone...assuming there's a decent connection, which isn't always true. Yay, T-Mobile. Then walk back inside and down the stairs and badge through the doors, and unlock my computer, and enter the code that Jack built.

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                            As someone with a brain, I'd like that too. Unfortunately, idiots tend to be too dumb to realize they're idiots. I'd like me a checkbox labeled "Look buddy, I'm not an idiot. I know better than to trust strangers on the internet and I don't run everything sent to me either, not turn off that annoyance!" but then idiots would check that, either because they think they indeed aren't idiots or because some crap YT tutorial told them to check that to disable this annoyance NOT informing them of the side effects or because some jerk friend told the same and viola, a company is under scrutiny for exposing their users to risks despite those users being so stupid, they deserve all bad that's happening to them. And especially with US-based companies, they're expected to babysit even the stupidest of users. The problem then is that there's no way to tell idiots from people with brains apart so they have to babysit everyone.

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                            Rage
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                            This is spoken truth. I think with me getting older, I am less and lees keen of having to make my life more complicated just because of others not being able to cope.

                            Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                              This is spoken truth. I think with me getting older, I am less and lees keen of having to make my life more complicated just because of others not being able to cope.

                              Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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                              Kirill Illenseer
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                              Age is a lame excuse, quite frankly. While it's true that older people tend to have less neural plasticity than youngsters, we, techies, are in the perfect field to keep our brains fresh throughout the decades. The change is real. Around 2000, a user name and password were enough. There was not enough e-commerce going around for bad guys to catch on as they go where there's money to be had. There wasn't enough expertise either, e-commerce was both not established enough to be a target and not established enough for bad guys to have worked out "solutions" to rip everyone off. With the years, both business and crime models evolved and grew, both in numbers and sizes (although most crime models boil to the same basic set of principles, many of them already described in the 70s and 80s). You don't need an expensive lock and alarm system living in a hardly populated suburb with low crime, do you? The internet changed, it used to be that suburb but now it's basically a downtown ghetto, so security had to be upped. Those are objectively measurable aspects. An aspect that AFAIK is purey my subjective opinion unless proven otherwise are stupid people. Masses of stupid people. A decade or two ago, there was internet but it was only for the few die-hards. Nowadays, everyone and his grandma is on the internet and the more people there are, the more stupid people there are as masses tend to be stupid so the more measures have to be taken to babysit idiots. I'd go as far as to claim that the effective IQ of a huge set of people is the avergave IQ divided by the square root of the number of people. But I think I'm starting to digress...

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