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Written by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] on 2024-12-04 at 16:05

So with the proliferation of deep fakes etc... M and I came up with a "family safe word."

Unfortunate complication: IT IS DEEPLY HILARIOUS AND I CAN'T TELL ANYONE DAMMIT

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Written by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] on 2024-12-04 at 16:06

this is like when my boss said "my current password is based on you and it's very funny and I can't tell you what it is"

It's been 15 years and I am HAUNTED by this

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Written by Trammell Hudson on 2024-12-04 at 16:32

@platypus my bank used to allow custom security questions, so I set one to "what are you wearing?" and the answer to "that's very inappropriate please transfer me to your manager". the first time an customer service rep encountered it they couldn't stop laughing and had to actually transfer to a coworker to complete the call.

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Written by petur 🔵😶 on 2024-12-04 at 22:21

@th Our government official communication box here in Belgium allows you to set a custom title, so I set mine to something resembling "yo this ain't no phishing, man" which is how I now know that the mail I get is official and not phishing.

Took a while to convince my wife these mails were really from our government

@platypus

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Toot

Written by fedops 💙💛 on 2024-12-07 at 12:06

@peturdainn also another use case for per-account email addresses.

If a "government" mail comes to your address registered with your electricity supplier you know it's a scam.

@th @platypus

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Written by Wilfried Klaebe on 2024-12-07 at 14:18

@fedops The amount of spam I get at the address I used over ten years ago on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (and only there, it contains "lkml") is... well, it's a lot.

@peturdainn @th @platypus

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