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This is a rant. If you don't want to read it, turn away now.

I manage the finances of my wife and I as well as my estranged mother and father. Mostly online.

Yesterday, I changed out the modem on my computer as the wifi signal had gotten very weak. Now, no one recognizes me?!?

Who are you? We don't recognize you? Someone's trying to log into your account, is it you?

I couldn't even open gmail because Google didn't recognize the IP address anymore. They assume everyone has a smart phone (which I do) and I had to affirm my identity multiple times via the smart phone. I had to do this for all four of us. Not just google- brokerage accounts, etc.

What would someone do if they didn't have a smart phone?

This stuff is getting far too carried away. Now my smart phone is my identity? Everything is tied together, linked and watching.

I know what's next--digital currency, no cash, and then the chip under the skin all in the name of security and ID protection for my own well being. "We're the government, we're here to help..."

It's coming. The question is how long it will take.

Over and out. :mad:
 
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Sounds more like all your cookies got wiped or you started using a different browser after installing the modem.

I very much doubt all those services cannot see the ID of the modem board unless they are using some kind of configuration snoop software. If they are doing such things it might explain why so many things get cranky when I try to use them. I run my computers pretty tight against such rubbish. Also, if your ISP is anything like mine, then your IP address gets reassigned quite a lot to balance their network. I cannot imagine that would upset gmail or anyone else.
 
Google (gmail) has implemented numerous security procedures. Every time I log into something (same browser), I go back to gmail and there's a message asking if I logged into that...if not, Google highly recommends that I change my password.

It's getting ridiculous. The fact that I manage accounts for four people made it even worse today.
 
Wow, this conversation is WAYYYY over my brain cell limit!! How did we make it through the stone age of hard-wired phones and pagers? We are now living what Dick Tracy & Star Trek have been doing for decades. Pretty cool!
 
sjbrdn said:
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What would someone do if they didn't have a smart phone?

This stuff is getting too far carried away. Now my smart phone is my identity? Everything is tied together, linked and watching.
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Over and out. :mad:
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I took five Swedes to DC precovid,, which was my college town and I worked there for a couple years, so I thought I knew the city.
The Swedes wanted to do the National Mall tourist stuff, and I thought I knew where to park so I could go with them, and I expected restrictions and parking meters, and took lots of coin change with me..
BUT.
The furschlugginer meters are no longer coin capable, and the only way to use them is to pay with a smart phone with a credit card capability. I had a new phone, only a few days old, and had not loaded a credit card, so while my friends toured, I had to drive around and around and around until they called me to pick them up. In DC traffic, with five people to climb in and out, that was a real Chinese fire drill!
Add to my rant the brain dead idiots, mostly young folks, who wander around oblivious of their surroundings with the phone held in their outstretched palm, reading and talking as they meander in parking lots and crosswalks, and I want to go berserk with a hammer.
Whew../rant
 
jeffrefrig said:
...We are now living what Dick Tracy & Star Trek have been doing for decades. Pretty cool!
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Except that in Dick Tracy and Star Trek, everything worked. No one had to go spend an hour and a half amusing themselves on the holodeck waiting for a tech support droid to fail to explain why their tetrahedral absquatulator's update locked it up.

This stiff drives me nuts as well. I use a VPN and I have to disable it when logging in to Amazon or I get a security warning email.... in German, from amazon.de! And when I'm at my gf's place in WA, the same thing happens even with the VPN disabled. Both are somewhat recent developments (6 mos.) I will not give them my cell # for confirmation, although there may be some way to use a third-party app like Authy, which I use for access to Govt. of Canada website services access. Authy also works on my laptop, as I hate having to rely on my phone for everything. I have to use it for my bank 2FA and for Last Pass.

We are now having to be so secure that the security procedures are becoming a nuisance.
 
I tried to make a VA appointment online--unsuccessfully. Tried to call and gave up when my 4-miniute wait time exceeded 45 minutes. Listening to the 45-minute VA PTSD sales pitch almost drove me insane. Received an email "survey" from the VA, so I told them their nonstop PTSD ad made me want to call the suicide hotline. Fifteen minutes after "Send" I received a call from the National Suicide Hotline asking me if I was okay. I laughed and told them I was until I listened to them for 45 minutes telling me to seek help. Now I get a monthly "How are you" card from the VA. At the VA appointment, the poor PA asked if I felt depressed. I told her I was never answering those questions again for anyone--period--and she could put that in my file. Rant over.
 
After working in banking for 31 years I can tell you one thing, these headaches are nothing compared to a severe breach / hacking of your financial accounts.

I feel the frustration myself when something changes and I have to answer all the security challenges two factor authentications etc, but when I get steamed, I think back on the horror stories I have seen, and I calm down.

The thieves are out there all the time, and they are good at what they do. It is a constant cat and mouse game with them. They break a security function; the banks plug it, and they find another way in, and the beat goes on.

Security is one area where all banks collaborate against the common enemy. These hackers aren't just your ordinary Joe, they are sophisticated and very dangerous.
 
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Digital money is already in the works for replacing our currenty. Probably before Biden gets out of office. Then we are under complete control of the govt.
 
Igiveup said:
Digital money is already in the works for replacing our currenty. Probably before Biden gets out of office. Then we are under complete control of the govt.
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In effect, we are already there. Credit cards are just a form of cyber currency. If the government wanted to track all of your CC transactions, they could easily do it. And maybe they are already doing it.
 
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DWalt said:
In effect, we are already there. Credit cards are just a form of cyber currency. If the government wanted to track all of your CC transactions, they could easily do it. And maybe they are already doing it.
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That's why all this talk of "digital currency" is a big joke. Its already just numbers on paper, we have long already been at that point.

If anything, the trouble is gong to be the usual currency value changes that have gone on throughout all of history. i.e. Roosevelt effectively debasing the dollar from gold by revaluing it, or the Roman tactic of switching base from silver to gold, or gold to silver, ect.

The only thing I can see possibly happening is an attempt by the State to revalue the currency through a "reset" that really isn't a reset, just an excuse to revalue the currency, with some lame excuse of "digital currency" being added as a thin vaneer.

Cash will never die, no matter how many of the oligarchs dream of it, it will never come. Digital currency "coming" is a joke because it has been here for a very, very long time already. Things wont' change the way people think.
 
Bekeart said:
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."


Bekeart
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Bekeart, you should be ashamed of that post...no matter how true it is! ROFLMAO! Of course, you aren't!

(Actually, it isn't HAL....these days it's SIRI. I'm waiting for some smart aleck on YT to make a video of HAL and SIRI arguing like a married couple.)
 
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SMSgt said:
I tried to make a VA appointment online--unsuccessfully. Tried to call and gave up when my 4-miniute wait time exceeded 45 minutes. Listening to the 45-minute VA PTSD sales pitch almost drove me insane. Received an email "survey" from the VA, so I told them their nonstop PTSD ad made me want to call the suicide hotline. Fifteen minutes after "Send" I received a call from the National Suicide Hotline asking me if I was okay. I laughed and told them I was until I listened to them for 45 minutes telling me to seek help. Now I get a monthly "How are you" card from the VA. At the VA appointment, the poor PA asked if I felt depressed. I told her I was never answering those questions again for anyone--period--and she could put that in my file. Rant over.
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That stuff is depressing. It seems they will not be happy until I am depressed. Joking about it is like joking about a gun at the airport.
 
Cash is still king in my mind. I do remember the first years of credit cards and you could almost go in any store and get a 3 or 4 % discount if you told them it was cash and not card. I do feel we pay that much more for everything now because card fees are just auto built into the price. I also still carry some cash with me. It is still the best way to seal a deal.
 
It is heartening that the original poster doesn't seem to mind any and all of his personal information being made public on the Internet. This knowledge will soothe my conscience as I open various phony accounts using his data...
 
The more technology that enters my life the more I appreciate gears and levers. Keep it simple, stupid. So much for that expression!
 
Travis Montana said:
Cash is still king in my mind. I do remember the first years of credit cards and you could almost go in any store and get a 3 or 4 % discount if you told them it was cash and not card. I do feel we pay that much more for everything now because card fees are just auto built into the price. I also still carry some cash with me. It is still the best way to seal a deal.
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At a commercial bar or full service restaurant I'll put the check on a credit card but I always tip in cash, usually Golden Dollars. I used to tend bar, and I have a lot of empathy with serving staff, so I want to make sure they get every penny of my tips. And hopefully they remember I gave them a good tip. In the service clubs I'm usually paying all in cash, Golden Dollars and $2 bills usually.
 
Pisgah said:
It is heartening that the original poster doesn't seem to mind any and all of his personal information being made public on the Internet. This knowledge will soothe my conscience as I open various phony accounts using his data...
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What did I make public? The fact that I use g-mail? Have fun and good luck with that. You don't even know my g-mail address unless you hack this forum. Then you'll have to deal with the silver back because he knows who you are. ;)
 
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