Americans need a government issued digital signing token to prove their identity digitally. There are a lot of services demanding ID verification these days and use a 3rd party to process driver's licenses and faces. It's super inefficient, full of friction, and probably unregulated (dodgy).
Someone claiming to work for the US Digital Services replied to me here years ago that this was being worked on in relation to the easily compromised SSN but I'd say all bets are off on a consumer friendly government service like that now.
It's not. Support is about on par with Google for SMBs. I had a client get locked out of the admin panel for about 2 weeks before getting through with support.
The difference is that everyone's account kept working during that time so business kept on as usual, just the admins couldn't change anything.
The sad thing is I don't think anyone did anything unusual and it was some kind of bug of Microsoft's end.
Recently I cleaned up a SMB client's Workspace users after archiving their data (former employee accounts that had been languishing). In the space of a day or two I did the following for half the ~20 total accounts:
- Moved to no 2FA sub-organization
- Reset password
- Disabled security check for ten minutes
- Logged in as the user in a fresh browser profile
- Exported data with Takeout
- Deleted the account in the admin console
I fully expected to hit some kind of roadblock or delay or for alarm bells to go off for the other admins, but nope, I literally "absconded" with hundreds of gigabytes of data and nuked half the org in short order.
There is a Workspace Admin option to export users' data but it warns of an automatic 48 hour delay to let "other admins take action" if something is amiss. The client wanted the task done before getting hit with the full monthly license fees again so I had to go the manual route.
Granted, out of paranoia, I was using the client's office VPN as my traffic egress so maybe that helped.
Ah, good. We're currently reliant on unpaid, probably-not-too-happy workers for fire safety. Sounds like a great time to stay off an airplane in the USA.
They did spur engineering effort to develop ICEs such that regular passenger cars in the USA could do better than 10 mpg.
It was something at least. Now we have a lot of people who choose to drive far less efficient behemoths than the much more efficient ICE (or hybrid) passenger cars currently available.
In that case, I'll make mine echo a random number of characters pee key stroke. The feedback is nice but then there are no worries about someone observing password length.
> English has one case and if we try very hard we can squeeze something similar to a case - so let's say it has two
This isn't a correct way to describe English grammar. You can either say it has no cases or four cases with no inflections (because it definitely has subjects, objects, indirect objects, and possessives).
Presumably your native language doesn't inflect in the nominative or something like that and your English teacher once gave you your statement as a convenience fact, but the vast majority of native English speakers have never heard of grammatical case (ones who have, have typically studied inflected foreign languages). In Linguistics, it might be used to describe English and other uninflected languages (it depends).
Someone claiming to work for the US Digital Services replied to me here years ago that this was being worked on in relation to the easily compromised SSN but I'd say all bets are off on a consumer friendly government service like that now.
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