I would like to set Google on fire. All of it.

[onehitwanda]

I just basically got locked out of my gmail because I had the audacity to change internet service providers. So now I come in from a strange IP range and Google's like "no, chick, not yours unless you give us your cell number"

Like I'm going to give you cunts another way to de-anonymize me. To the flames with you whoresons.

Au revoir, 10 years of thoughtful emails.

Oh well, it was going to happen eventually I guess.

 

[Euphony]

Temp number to verify back in.

Download all messages through 3rd party mail handler.

Archive.

Temp expires. You disappear Jason Bourne style by never logging in again.

 

[onehitwanda]

Temp number to verify back in.

Download all messages through 3rd party mail handler.

Archive.

Temp expires. You disappear Jason Bourne style by never logging in again.

This is a fine idea. My company sells virtual numbers. I could appropriate one for testing.

 

[HectorBidon]

They've got my cell phone number and have used it numerous times for two-factor authentication. I guess I feel safer being protected against somebody stealing their way into my account than I worry about Google knowing more about me. I'm not that interesting anyway, and I'm sure they already know that.

 

[Euphony]

This is a fine idea. My company sells virtual numbers. I could appropriate one for testing.

 

[alohadave]

They've got my cell phone number and have used it numerous times for two-factor authentication. I guess I feel safer being protected against somebody stealing their way into my account than I worry about Google knowing more about me. I'm not that interesting anyway, and I'm sure they already know that.

They already know all about you. Giving them your cell number for 2FA isn't exposing anything that they don't already have.

 

[EmilyMiller]

They already know all about you. Giving them your cell number for 2FA isn't exposing anything that they don't already have.

Was going to say that.

They lock me out at the least provocation. When I was in Italy. When I was in France. It was OK in London for some reason.

Em

 

[MrPixel]

I abandoned my Gmail account for this very reason. Same with my Outlook account. Fuck 'em. That's why I have several domains and run my own e-mail server, on my own computer, in my own building.

Google's still screwing with me, though. They keep raising the bar on what e-mails they will accept from my server. When C sends an e-mail to our kid's Gmail account, maybe one in ten will be rejected and she'll send it again. I'd usually be happy to give him an account on our server, but he's with the State Department, currently in China - in fact Wuhan for the past two weeks - and I don't want the Chinese mucking around in my server. Like they don't do that already.

Anyway, Gmail account was for coordinating with our swinger friends, and cruising Craigslist when they used to have personals. No loss, we've moved on to other social venues and are actually having better luck.

 

[jsmiam]

As a fellow cynic, skeptic, and cranky person, I understand the sentiment.

However…

Are you sure in a moment of weakness they don’t already have your number from ten years ago? Or, do you still have a verification email from another email address?

I’m not saying “trust google” by any stretch, I don’t trust them either. Nor do I trust them not to find more ways to present ads to you if they know your phone number.

But phone or other forms of two factor authentication do make you much more secure from hackers and Rupert Murdoch tabloid reporters. I would come this close to saying it’s worth doing, whether it’s google or someone else.

Authenticator apps are even better. They’ll want your phone number somewhere along the line anyway too, though

 

[onehitwanda]

As a fellow cynic, skeptic, and cranky person, I understand the sentiment.

However…

Are you sure in a moment of weakness they don’t already have your number from ten years ago? Or, do you still have a verification email from another email address?

I’m not saying “trust google” by any stretch, I don’t trust them either. Nor do I trust them not to find more ways to present ads to you if they know your phone number.

But phone or other forms of two factor authentication do make you much more secure from hackers and Rupert Murdoch tabloid reporters. I would come this close to saying it’s worth doing, whether it’s google or someone else.

Authenticator apps are even better. They’ll want your phone number somewhere along the line anyway too, though

I have been scrupulously careful to keep this part of my life completely separate from the rest of it. I've never used a recovery email address, phone number, or anything else - it's to all intents and purposes siloed. Obviously, traffic correlation etc would probably identify me, but my life is very much at the level of "lets sell her some shoes" rather than "she is a threat to His Majesty's Government."

Unless we're talking my fashion sense, which could be described by one xhtml element: <style/>

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Was going to say that.

They lock me out at the least provocation. When I was in Italy. When I was in France. It was OK in London for some reason.

Em

That’s because M15 know everything about everybody already.

 

[onehitwanda]

That’s because M15 know everything about everybody already.

Do they know where I left my favourite pair of socks?

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Do they know where I left my favourite pair of socks?

Yes. But they’ll never tell anyone. They’re both brilliant and also shitheads for that.

 

[Euphony]

Do they know where I left my favourite pair of socks?

Where you last left them.

*This message will self destruct in 5 seconds*

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Here's so,e kerosene and a lighter. Let 'em burrrrn!

 

[SeraphNocturne]

Dreadful luck, I really hope you can regain access!

 

[SimonDoom]

We are Google, Ms. Onehitwanda. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to face your fate. Pursue us, and you will be caught, and destroyed. Good luck, Ms. Onehitwanda. This message will self destruct in five seconds.

 

[Zootonius]

Do they know where I left my favourite pair of socks?

Knowing Google, they'd be happy to point you to where you can buy ones just like them.

Google used to be know for the phrase 'Don't be evil' now, it's 'Be evil.'

 

[Emilymcplugger]

We are Google, Ms. Onehitwanda. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to face your fate. Pursue us, and you will be caught, and destroyed. Good luck, Ms. Onehitwanda. This message will self destruct in five seconds.

A variation from my FAVOURITE of the series.

Fun fact: last summer my sister and I went on a location hunt through London to visit all the different spots were ROGUE NATION was filmed and I got to stand in that pillars area where Ilsa and Yanick had their knife fight.

Kin awesome

 

[SimonDoom]

A variation from my FAVOURITE of the series.

Fun fact: last summer my sister and I went on a location hunt through London to visit all the different spots were ROGUE NATION was filmed and I got to stand in that pillars area where Ilsa and Yanick had their knife fight.

Kin awesome

The airplane stunt was one of the greatest movie stunts of all time. Incredible even by Tom Cruise standards.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I have been scrupulously careful to keep this part of my life completely separate from the rest of it. I've never used a recovery email address, phone number, or anything else - it's to all intents and purposes siloed. Obviously, traffic correlation etc would probably identify me, but my life is very much at the level of "lets sell her some shoes" rather than "she is a threat to His Majesty's Government."

Unless we're talking my fashion sense, which could be described by one xhtml element: <style/>

Good decision. I was foolish enough to give Google a recovery address for my Lit-related account, and next I knew it was steering anybody who knew the recovery address towards my Lit email.

Minor annoyance for me, but for some people that behaviour could've been very dangerous.

 

[HeyAll]

Nothing wrong with putting your phone in, IMO. Nothing happens with it anyway.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Well, I do have a Hotmail account (ancient) which I use more often than the two G-mail accounts I have. I assume I already have been de-anonymized in many ways I don't even know yet. For one thing, to get on a certain program with the New York City Human Resources Administration (the very term Human Resources bothers me) I had to give them a ton of info about myself, every two years. No info, no money, no choice. If Eric Adams ever knocks on my door, I'll know how he found me.

Someday, we may have this again, except the more sophisticated American version will team up Google and such with the CIA, DHS, INS, and other agencies so "black" that the general public hasn't even heard of them. The "Commies" were crude enough to put it all in one organization. Our version will be so diffused that know one will know exactly how to cope with it.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stasi

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Nothing wrong with putting your phone in, IMO. Nothing happens with it anyway.

Lots happens with it. Stuff that we probably wouldn't even conceive of them doing with it. Google's business is collecting and sharing info. They say that it's private but they lie. They collect any kind of info that they can, save it and sell it. Why do you think they bought fitbit?

 

[MajorRewrite]

I have been scrupulously careful to keep this part of my life completely separate from the rest of it. I've never used a recovery email address, phone number, or anything else - it's to all intents and purposes siloed.

Me too.

Now I’m curious. Do the rest of you check your Lit-associated email account? I have to admit I don’t. Reading email from people who have read my Lit stories seems kind of creepy. Maybe I’m just weird.