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> Once you accept, the RAID AI will keep monitoring your stream for the presence of MTN DEW, if you remove your DEW, you’ll be prompted to bring it back on camera

This has to be directly inspired by that "drink verification can" 4chan post.

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I assume we are talking about this one, for those not aware: https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png

Thank you for linking that, that made me laugh out loud. That should be a scene in Idiocracy.

Change a few words and this feels exactly like the security theatre of the modern login experience, 2FA, MFA, I'm sure they're working on the next insufferable "best practice" to try tie your phone to you even more. Good luck logging into some services if you dare keep your phone in another room for a change.

Flashback to the time I was getting approximately 50 Microsoft 2FA SMS's a day. The place I worked then had forced Chrome's homepage to be some crappy SharePoint page. Getting into that required logging into our Microsoft account, and the checkbox to remember our login for five days literally never worked.

So every time I opened a new tab in Chrome, I'd get a SMS. Truly, we are living in the future.

to be fair, sounds like the place you worked at misconfigured something, rather than M$.

Tip: if you find that the "remember my login" ticks never seem to work for you, it's likely your browser's "Enhanced Tracking Prevention" or whatever. You should be able to disable it for just the domain that the authentication portal itself is happening on. Helped a lot for me.

I always wonder what would happen to most people if there was a house fire and all their phones and laptops burned at once.

It’s not clear what the best security plan for that is (safety deposit box or fireproof safe seem like the best options).

Most places will deactivate your account's 2FA if you can convincingly prove your identity. Of course hackers noticed that too, and might try to disable your 2FA once they have enough private information about you ...

So, not Google.

I tried to go phone free once. It was going well until I had to pay my car note.

I stress about getting my shit stolen every time I’m traveling and being completely locked out of everything. I stash an extra phone separate from my main phone every time I travel for that reason.

You have two phones with the same number? I didn't know that was possible.

No, but most SMS-based 2fa is linked to my voip number, which then requires 2fa stored in a password manager.

Makes sense. Thanks.

Many services let you print 2fa codes. Keep them at a friends house

The primary MFA device should be a Yubikey or something similar. Some of such keys are designed to be permanently plugged in. People use phones instead when they don't want to invest into a key or as a backup. EDIT: Or when OTP over SMS is the only MFA method supported as it likely is in your case.

Does that also work if Google again randomly decides I have to use a specific one of multiple MFA choices? Recently it forced me to dig out my old phone I hadn't been using for months and boot it just to confirm a popup because it simply wouldn't let me select a different method. I don't know what would have happened if I'd lost the phone instead of just buying a new one after support ended. It didn't even let me enter my printed out backup codes, which kind of defeats the purpose.

And most people aren't even using a free password manager, there's no chance they're going to buy and configure a Yubikey.

I once ran over my phone with a mower. Tried to log onto Verizon's site to buy a new one. Please enter the code shown on your phone. No alternative way to sign in. Nothing. I contacted chat support and they wouldn't talk to me until I verified through my phone. Obviously impossible. I ended up chatting with sales support and begging each person to forward me to tech support until one finally took pity on me and forwarded me to someone who was cool enough to actually help me. What the hell.

>The place I worked then had forced Chrome's homepage to be some crappy SharePoint page. Getting into that required logging into our Microsoft account, and the checkbox to remember our login for five days literally never worked.

Yes but, usually you are logged into your PC with the same account. So with SSO in Edge and Firefox, it would just log you in.

Except it didn’t.

Yes because Chrome does not have Azure AD Windows account SSO :)

And thanks to Sony (patent US8246454B2), this might as well be real…

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/b4/2e/a1/779dd8d...

This never fails to make me tear up with laughter. The quadrant where he stands up just really gets me.

Isn't the greentext in direct response to that patent?

Patent was granted in 2012, greentext published in 2013. Definitely plausible.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

  -wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games
  -excited to play some halo 2k19
  -"xbox on"
  -...
  -"XBOX ON"
  -"Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"
  -"Doritos™ Dew™ it right"
  -"ERROR! Please drink a verification can"
  -reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest
  -only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
  -still feeling sick from the 14
  -force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot"
  -xbox does nothing
  -i attempt to smile
  -"Connecting to verification server"
  -...
  -"Verification complete!"
  -finally
  -boot up halo 2k19
  -finding multiplayer match...
  -"ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!"
  -my mother just walked in the room
  -"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?"
  -"NO!"
  -"Console entering lock state!"
  -"to unlock drink verification can"
  -last can
  -"WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"
  -drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
  -pour the last half out the window
  -"PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE"
  -the mountain dew ad plays
  -i have to dance for it
  -feeling so sick
  -makes me sing along
  -dancing and singing
  -"mountain dew is for me and you"
  -throw up on my self
  -throw up on my tv and entertainment system
  -router shorts
  -"ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF"
  -"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"

Text for context, source:4chan

I think they're using it as an instruction manual. Looking forward to Doritos deploying their piece.

It has become impossible to parody corporate greed because the corpos are getting greedier faster than comedians can come up with material.

How many years until you'll get rewarded extra of your drinking from the can? I'd say 2-3 years.

Sounds like something out of Idiocracy. It's got what _____ crave!

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