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Equifax seems to be doing alright.

Sony hasn’t failed yet.

I don’t think your opinion matches with reality.

The difference here is that Google found this problem itself, and evaluated with high confidence that it was likely unknown to anyone outside that audit.

That means that Google was proactively checking it’s work to make sure it was secure, unlike your example where nobody was likely ever going to notice that bucket was misconfigured.

They’re the gold standard because they find and clean up their own shit, even when nobody is pressing them to do it.

Yeah. That’s what the adults were talking about.

We can’t trust the supply chain.

Being the best in the market isn’t an antitrust issue.

There isn’t any credible alternative to Google because they’re head and shoulders above everyone else.

There are other search engines, they just don’t measure up.

Except that the entire reason most sites are searchable is because of the analytics includes on every single page, everywhere.

So, literally every click you make is trickling data back to Facegoogsoft, because that’s how indexing works.

What now?

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/usin...

I’d say google learned from Gates and Zuckerberg getting grandstanded at.

Not the second time, and that’s really the important part.

This isn’t a feature to authenticate the account. This is to identify the person using the account. They’re tying the person using the account to a phone number that person apparently controls, and thus a billing contact.

This usually means Google suspects you of doing something that might be abusive.

In this case: re-activating a dormant account that was in a data dump would be a safe bet.

10 year old accounts get hijacked all the time.

You don’t think there is a system for network providers to identify customers to each other?

How about to law enforcement?

Except that with the advent of mobile billing, and the like, any phone service provider can pull your info from pretty much anywhere in the world.

Which is why Google is asking for a phone number here, they think the account is likely abusing a service, and they want to identify who is using it.

Most of the tracking in your google account is to give you the answers you’re looking for, not because it’s of any benefit other than providing a better service.

Like when I search for a three letter acronym, google knows that I’m an engineer, and I see links for results about computer hardware, and not about a Jewish Torah studies group with the same TLA.

Google makes those models for individual accounts, which is why google can tailor results so well to what you’re looking for right now.

This is an anti-spam and anti-abuse requirement, not because they need you to tell them your phone number.

They’re on most of the phones in the world, and have access to all the billing records associated with your phone number, as they’re a cell phone service provider. They’re asking folks who they think might be abusing the service for this information, so they identify themselves in a way that Google can report to law enforcement.

The idea they’d need you to tell them this information so they could use it is kind of laughable.

It’s a security measure FOR THEIR SECURITY, not for yours.

It’s an anti-spam, and anti-abuse measure. So they’re not giving away free resources that get used to harass their users.

Why would Google need you to give them your phone number to associate that with you? They’re on many of the phones in the world, someone you know has already done that for them, or you used your own phone to do the same.