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What about credit cards and bank accounts ?
all security is false when social engineering is how they get your ass
So, better leave your house wide open since you can be tricked into opening it, right?
will they pay off my debt for me? lit
the few times ive had a card stolen, disputing worked fine, they alreayd have all the info they need to steal my identity, or my phone number or apple account, btw yall arent as safe as you think, when I was in middle school I had a 70% success rate hacking random ppls icloud accounts, idk if thats patched but I never felt safe afterwards or cared if I got blackmailed in a roundbout way since it was so easy (I wanted to be mr robot and was practicing, im prob on the spectrum idk)
Every measure is a deterrent, it may not stop people like you, but it may stop lazier people, or bots.