They claim 2-factor authentication enhances security, but I keep hearing from security experts that it actually makes you more hackable.
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this, I avoid giving my phone # whenever possible, but it's getting to be impossible.
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so, one leak and every hacker in the world has my phone #. They're also going to have my DoB, addresss, etc... and they can get my phone # switched thru CSR to a phone of their choice. Then they own everything.
It's insanely stupid.
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funny, really, this stuff didn't use to matter. Unless you had a sensitive job, you'd get the phone book to put your phone # and address in it, so people could find you.
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Norway still works this way; in fact, having your number in the phone book is extremely difficult to opt out of, and it can be found online.
Nasty implications, but classic example of Norwegian naivety.
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yeah, it was hard to opt out, but not impossible. IIRC you had to pay to have an unlisted number. Could work amusingly though. Construction work near a friend's house all night so she would call the company boss every hour, wake him up.
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"If I can't sleep, neither can you."
Construction at night at the site soon stopped. That gal was a spitfire.
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Classic example of skin in the game actually being useful for some things. :P
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certain Roman officials, during their year in office, could not close their home's doors and had to allow anyone entry
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Yes, and pre-Augustus the murder rate for officials was a thing to behold.
Of course, the praetorians eventually just made it worse...
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Secondarily, it was probably a good thing that said officials had to fear for their lives.