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I HAVE RENTED A CAR THROUGH "EXPEDIA"What I expected:- At my destinat…
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@mcc eep! Is this app for expedia, or for the rental company? I've got a tr…
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- I immediately forget completely about renting the car as I drop everything to…
Post #Aip2bOYoU3B6nThBZ2 by [email protected]
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@kboyd The app was for the car rental agency I picked within expedia. It turned…
Post #Aip2bOe8AHQp3yBQqu by [email protected]
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@mcc oh, hmm. That's a bit weird.
Post #Aip6TvX0PlmAYQXogq by [email protected]
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Someday this kind of thing is going to happen enough times I'm going to sto…
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@mcc I heard some good things about e os lately. Sounds like it's pretty cl…
Post #Aip7b8eU8AObEE2saW by [email protected]
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@mcc I never considered auto filling otps a privacy violation. What am I missin…
Post #Aip7b8krkRV3Y11yXA by [email protected]
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@ryanjyoder (1) It's reading my SMS. "It's reading my SMS in a lim…
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@ryanjyoder (3) Even if Google used correct judgement when they thought real ha…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] If there's an 11-char hash …
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@natty @ryanjyoder I knew about the first thing. I didn't know about the se…
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@mcc @natty @ryanjyoder On a related note, this is roughly how Apple associates…
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@mcc I feel this whole story because (i) I had the same experience with an auth…
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@fishidwardrobe it would be great if antitrust law were real
Post #AipABGgBxgnySVCQbI by [email protected]
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@mcc if you're serious about alternative android & have a pixel phone, …
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@mcc my understanding of this flow is that the OS/Play Services is doing the ch…
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@cassidy That is my read of the linked documentation as well. I don't care?…
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@mcc *sigh* I doubt I will convince you of anything—but I think it is disinge…
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@cassidy I don't… Google wrote the OS. The OS is Google.It is the case th…
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@mcc I do think it is much more worthwhile to focus on actual egregious privacy…
Post #AipDr48tGSOtbIFGb2 by [email protected]
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@mcc I read this part one and said no way am I installing some app on my phone.…
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@mcc my bank basically locks me out because I run fully degoogled rooted Lineag…
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@mcc i had to download an app to order a drink in a pub recently
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@sean_ae @mcc That’s a big nope for me. Force me to use an app and you lose…
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@mcc I think it would need to be real *in the US*, which seems like a higher di…
Post #AipFsk9gkMuQ6CXvdo by [email protected]
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@fishidwardrobe @mcc The US probably “invented” antitrust law with the She…
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@cassidy The status quo was that they send me an SMS and then I either type, or…
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@cassidy Meanwhile, this isn't harmless. This means any app running on my p…
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@aartaka So far my bank has allowed me to access everything through web pages. …
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@mcc web pages are fine, because browsers are separate OS-es by now. But I wond…
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@mcc I understand the principle here but I am struggling a bit to understand wh…
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@glyph - I view SMS as inherently "personal". An app being given acce…
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@mcc well I learned one happy thing as a result of this thread; I am pretty sur…
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@glyph @mcc isn’t this the thing weev went to prison for
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@mcc how does this work on Android?On iOS there’s a system popover that says …
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@jason The app wants to send an SMS to itself to verify the phone number. It ta…
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@mcc oh so there’s zero user input during this handshake? That sounds slicker…
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@mcc I carry a flip phone. Fuck 'em.
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@mcc what's the issue here? you've already given the app your phone num…
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@rcombs (1) Google allowed it access to the content of a text message to verify…
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@mcc @rcombs i don't see how (1) could be satisfied while running an OS dev…
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@whitequark @rcombs It might require legislation(Arguments I am not particularl…
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@mcc @rcombs I find it baffling that you clearly know how a phone works but sti…
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@mcc @rcombs (I find it slightly less baffling that you receive anything but au…
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@mlippert There's a lot of text on those reservation pages. I've had im…
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@mcc @mlippert I suspect many people own cars that are rarely used primarily b…
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@mjr @mlippert To be clear I *think* the phone app was only using SMS in the st…
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@mcc @mjr I'm totally with you on the sketchy use of SMS by Google via thi…
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@mjr @mlippert (Also, I feel like Expedia ought to be warning "app require…
Post #AiteTPk8mBqx2TSGki by [email protected]
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An update on the car I rented via an aggregator, which— after rental— turne…
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This is an *unattended vehicle you unlock via Bluetooth*. And there's a fee…
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Anyway this is why I wound up with so many photographs of dumpsters behind hote…
Post #AiteTRTuJW3YQhsKjA by [email protected]
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@mcc this is dystopian in a very particular way and so very strange.
Post #AiteTRZvx6sQjOh97Y by [email protected]
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@_nadine There are just so many layers of problem here! For one thing, when fly…
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@mcc @_nadine I would definitely dispute the charges with the credit card compa…
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@mcc from running LineageOS: by far the most common situation is that shit just…
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