Frederick Bott
1 min readFeb 13, 2025

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MFA is mostly abused, it's a way to get more contact details from you for "Direct marketing", these details are often sold, and often the target of data theft, and look, every extra factor we add in increases our own vulnerability to identity theft, as well as other things. So I wouldn't agree with that advice, though its the mainstream advice, it isn't best for the individual. Personally I refuse to sign up to anything that insists on this for personal, rather than corporate or government use. MFA might be appropriate for organisations and collectives, but it isn't for individuals, imho.
Also on dodgy forums, it might have been the darkweb previously, but since some platforms seem to have become the playgrounds of rich individuals who own the platform, it's just become a cult fan club, useless to all, isolated from reality.
In these forums users are shamed for having any opinion less than complimentary about the platform or other interests associated with the owner, and the owner comes to see those opinions as representative of the public, blowing up their perceived "good' of their products and thoughts, even when they are rubbish, the fan boys will all say they are great, and push yet more money towards them, as if fanboy enthusiasm can shape reality. But it doesn't, it's only their reality that shifts away from actual physical reality.

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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