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Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


SIGSEGV posted:

Security fuckup megathread 18.18: it always was stupid, but now it is stupider.

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Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Powerful Two-Hander posted:

couldn't you have done this with a tape recorder tho

lol good luck getting someone to ever say "passport"

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


Grace Baiting posted:

lol good luck getting someone to ever say "passport"

hacker foiled by the one thing they couldn't handle: human interaction

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Grace Baiting posted:

lol good luck getting someone to ever say "passport"

how did they handle this in Sneakers

mystes
May 31, 2006

haveblue posted:

how did they handle this in Sneakers
I want to say it was literally just something like "I think the word passport is sexy; could you say it for me?"

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

haveblue posted:

how did they handle this in Sneakers

she was doing a crossword iirc

brains
May 12, 2004

haveblue posted:

how did they handle this in Sneakers

they sent an attractive woman lol

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

brains posted:

they sent an attractive woman lol

This would immediately tip off any goon that a plot was afoot

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


Captain Foo posted:

This would immediately tip off any goon that a plot was afoot

But she really needs that printer

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Captain Foo posted:

This would immediately tip off any goon that a plot was afoot

this was part of it yes

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






haveblue posted:

how did they handle this in Sneakers

https://youtu.be/oG5vsPJ5Tos

mystes
May 31, 2006

?

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008







you just kick in the door OP

mystes
May 31, 2006

spankmeister posted:

you just kick in the door OP
Oh okay, but there was another part of the movie where they did do this whole thing to defeat the voice authentication

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


This week has been a pooshower. IT reported the company I work for got breached. Had to change all my passwords. IT also says my personal info including SIN (Canadian SSN) was filched.

What do I do to protect my rear end?

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
well good news because in canada we can’t lock our credit so just watch your credit reports like a hawk

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Quackles posted:

This week has been a pooshower. IT reported the company I work for got breached. Had to change all my passwords. IT also says my personal info including SIN (Canadian SSN) was filched.

What do I do to protect my rear end?

fake your death and come back in a few years as someone else. just being declared legally dead might be enough, i'm not as familiar with canadian law.

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


Midjack posted:

fake your death and come back in a few years as someone else. just being declared legally dead might be enough, i'm not as familiar with canadian law.

:hmmno:

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Quackles posted:

This week has been a pooshower. IT reported the company I work for got breached. Had to change all my passwords. IT also says my personal info including SIN (Canadian SSN) was filched.

What do I do to protect my rear end?

become a latvian citizen and relinquish your canadian citizenship. everyone will just alternate between pitying you and calling you an idiot, instead of hurting you

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Quackles posted:

This week has been a pooshower. IT reported the company I work for got breached. Had to change all my passwords. IT also says my personal info including SIN (Canadian SSN) was filched.

What do I do to protect my rear end?
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/sin/protection.html

If you have been affected by a data breach

The Government of Canada is committed to protecting the integrity of the SIN program from fraud and misuse. It takes any breach of information very seriously.

If you have been affected by a data breach, contact Canada’s 2 major credit bureaus to monitor your file.

Equifax: 1-800-465-7166
TransUnion: 1-800-663-9980
Regularly review your banking and credit card statements, especially after the credit monitoring service ends.

If you notice any suspicious activity, immediately report it to the police, contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, and inform Service Canada. This will help reduce the potential impact.

Service Canada does not issue a new SIN for those affected by a data breach.

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Chris Knight posted:

Service Canada does not issue a new SIN for those affected by a data breach.

the doctrine of original SIN

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Quackles posted:

This week has been a pooshower. IT reported the company I work for got breached. Had to change all my passwords. IT also says my personal info including SIN (Canadian SSN) was filched.

What do I do to protect my rear end?

how's life at indigo anyway?

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




infernal machines posted:

how's life at indigo anyway?

please, it's indigogo

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


cinci zoo sniper posted:

please, it's indigogo

I thought they were a band. :v:

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Quackles posted:

I thought they were a band. :v:



Thank you.

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

infernal machines posted:

how's life at indigo anyway?

i mean op could also work for my old landlord because those fuckers got breached and leaked my sin too :toot:

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


I would simply confess my SIN and stop worrying about it

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I would simply confess my SIN and stop worrying about it

OK, it's 696-420-969

sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016





figured there would be a 219 in there somewhere

cool av
Mar 2, 2013

i called my bank last week to dispute a charge and after like 5 minutes of menus the recording said "you can do this online" (you can't). "would you like me to send you an email with instructions on how to do it?"

I said "no."

It said "Okay, the email should be arriving soon. Thank you." and then hung up.

mystes
May 31, 2006

cool av posted:

i called my bank last week to dispute a charge and after like 5 minutes of menus the recording said "you can do this online" (you can't). "would you like me to send you an email with instructions on how to do it?"

I said "no."

It said "Okay, the email should be arriving soon. Thank you." and then hung up.
This seems like a problem modern AI can easily handle. For example, would it make you feel better if the computer telling you to go gently caress yourself pretended to be dating you?

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

Quackles posted:

OK, it's 696-420-969

doesn't pass luhn

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

mystes posted:

This seems like a problem modern AI can easily handle. For example, would it make you feel better if the computer telling you to go gently caress yourself pretended to be dating you?

if i run into these i alternatively shout obscenities or start mashing every number. sometimes it even works

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
it doesn’t have to be obscenities, just talk continuously about something totally irrelevant. Most of them transfer you to a human after too many failures in a row

sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016





cool av posted:

i called my bank last week to dispute a charge and after like 5 minutes of menus the recording said "you can do this online" (you can't). "would you like me to send you an email with instructions on how to do it?"

I said "no."

It said "Okay, the email should be arriving soon. Thank you." and then hung up.

This is why I always just hit zero or say "operator" upon the first few hints that the computer is actually listening to me. Why spend minutes trying to listen to all the menu options to get to the right extension when someone more qualified can do it for you?

And yes, the most infuriating poo poo is when they have the gall to use an automated recording to tell you how to use the internet to solve the problem, when that advice isn't helpful at all.

Or the survey is only there to try to ding the customer service people instead of a venue where you can vent at the utter failure of automated support.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



haveblue posted:

it doesn’t have to be obscenities, just talk continuously about something totally irrelevant. Most of them transfer you to a human after too many failures in a row

usually just repeatedly mashing the # button will bypass most IVRs

Computer Serf
May 14, 2005
Buglord

Vahakyla posted:


https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/wuhl...dc-4ffd1873b35d
Der Spiegel shows Ukrainians using Discord at a command post.

:nsavince:

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

sb hermit posted:

And yes, the most infuriating poo poo is when they have the gall to use an automated recording to tell you how to use the internet to solve the problem, when that advice isn't helpful at all.

like it’s 2023 ffs, do they really think I didn’t try the website first and exhaust all online options before gritting my teeth and resorting to the phone

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sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016





Soricidus posted:

like it’s 2023 ffs, do they really think I didn’t try the website first and exhaust all online options before gritting my teeth and resorting to the phone

kinda feel like it's a weird rear end management decision to annoy the gently caress out of callers that use the phone as the first step out of habit or preference. But on the other hand, it also annoys the gently caress out of all the other callers that had no other recourse than to call in.

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