Not trying to be a smartypants. Genuinely curious regarding the following:
Sending a secure email to my secure email account would be a start.
What is the definition of secure email or secure email account in the above sentence?
Except the preferrence is to gmail - - - to feed the advertising engine you know!
Do I understand correctly that you've run into websites that insist on users signing up with a gmail account, or am I understanding this wrong? If so, what are some examples of such services? Alex Kink (PGP Key <https://alexkink.net/public_key.asc>) +1 416 887 4795
On Jan 15, 2024, at 13:53, o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 11:38 AM Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 7:37 AM o1bigtenor via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
One doesn't use a cell phone (well I wouldn't) but a cellphone number is demanded to verify one's identity. Without a working cellphone connection one is today - - - a NON-person.
OK, what other ways of verifying identity would you prefer?
Sending a secure email to my secure email account would be a start. Except the preferrence is to gmail - - - to feed the advertising engine you know!
You can still do most of what needs to be done with banks and government through in-person and/or postal service that can be done without connectivity of any kind.
Postal service - - - - what a misd nomer!!!
Post office hours are such so that that would necessitate a special trip into town. (Gross costs about $35.) Bank I am dealing with doesn't do in person stuff any more - - - they might upon special request but as I'm neither part of the 'elderly' (yet) nor infirm that's also a no go.
I understand that you don't get the problem but then you are an urban dweller
As are more than 80% of Canadians.
Its actually 93% or Canuckistanis - - - which is why its so frustrating for the other 7% - - - the 93% asks why should we give a c**p - - - they see no need for the fix. Except even among urban dwellers there is a rapidly widening availability of services and the probelm is increasing rather than diminishing. (Cell phone access is based upon maximal profit for the providers not upon providing a service. This has supposedly been an election issue for just short of some 25 years here and still no changes - - - just more platitudes!)
who has absolutely no idea what its like trying to connect to an ever increasing number of entities that demand SMS connectiviity
You're right, I have no idea. I logically assume that if someone wants to "connect" that first they possess a device capable of "connecting".
Please explain why this should not be the case.
Why should this method of 'connecting' be imposed upon those who don't even have the option to use it?
FWIW, much of my most important supplemental authentication -- including a number of government accounts -- is done through an authenticator app which does not rely on SMS.
Hmmmmmm - - - you're still using a stupid phone - - - - - lets say your stupid phone service died and you would not be able to replace said service for 60 days - - - what would you do then?
It doesn't seem like you're getting the extent of the issue - - - you're offerring solutions that just don't work if one doesn't have access to cellphone service.
I have one - - - use it when I go into town - - - - otherwise - - - imo - - - - its a stupidly expensive (and quite useless here) communication device - - - - and not much else.
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