I think my question was clear enough. The comment didn’t mention banks, I’ve never had a bank that did that, and we generally don’t try to hide our identities from our banks anyway. My best guess was that they misunderstood how public/private keys work, but since that was only a guess, I asked.
I don’t see a claim of it being more private than a username. Perhaps the person you’re arguing with views them as equally private, or is thinking of services that require some form of contact info. I can’t speak for them.
LOL what? No they’re not. How does an email protect your privacy over just a username?
They said per-account email addresses, presumably meaning that when giving out an email address, you would use a different one for each service. That way, they couldn’t be used to link you across services, and you could easily delete one (and know who to blame) if it was abused.
quit
sellingdemanding my fucking phone number!
FTFY
Why?
I hear people wondering, “WTF is LAHF?”
It’s a CPU instruction.
I find the opposite to be true. There’s nothing like being skilled in a field to make poor workmanship in that field stand out to you.
“Locked” implies no easy way of reopening.
Most counterproductive bug tracker feature ever.
See also: The constant push by governments to take away our right to private (encrypted) communications.
IMHO, this community should be about technology. Novel inventions. Interesting or creative applications. Discoveries. Dangers, advances, impacts, experiments, tutorials, etc.
Instead, it’s overrun with stock market and business news having no more to do with technology than CEOs of wood pulp factories have to do with literature.
I wish Rule 2 was phrased in a way that clearly excludes the latter, and enforced.
Some of us do, but that doesn’t remove the unending flood of business news and corporate drama that we don’t want in our feeds, so it doesn’t solve the problem.
While we’re at it, let’s ban languages that aren’t understood by Europol employees. Criminals could be using them to have private conversations.