• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    If everyone punches 1/1 as birthdate, then their stats literally flag you as a risk and probably lying about your age, because so many others followed this otherwise simple advice.

    You’ll get flagged quicker than anyone as a suspicious person.

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      7 days ago

      that’s why I put in my dads birthdate, he dead, I can remember it. I use it everywhere now that’s not a bank or my government

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        7 days ago

        Fair game, cool cool 👍

        I can’t exactly use my dad’s birthday though, I’m saving his other critical numbers in memory for emergency use…

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      7 days ago

      Who’s “they” in this scenario? Since the details being stored here are entirely private and local to the system.

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        7 days ago

        If hackers have shown us anything, is that unless you totally cut the cord and run your system in a Faraday cage, then nothing is truly local to your system, and hackers will target said data.

        And that’s assuming big corporations aren’t already targeting said data. You do trust big corporations right? Right? /s

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          6 days ago

          Ok, well the other details I’ve got on my computer are my banking details, my credit card details, all my OTP codes and all my account passwords for every service I use alongside my SSH keys to access my VPS.

          And I’m not sure EndeavourOS is that big a company, I’m not actually sure they are a company.

          But sure, they can know I’m 38.

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            6 days ago

            They still make paper checks you know right?

            I haven’t had any bank account for the past 11 years.

            Wonder why? TurboTax direct deposit was refused from my bank.