The folks planning 911 used this same technique of using drafts to send messages back and forth. I'm certain that these are now always saved permanently for law enforcement use to comply with CALEA.
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My sister also uses "shell" companies. She is a prominent ex-scientologist and scientology has an established history of using litigation to punish and silence critics and exmembers. So when her car gets rammed, and she gets sued, by being broke she can't pay damages, and the car is owned by an LLC that only owns the car, so the plaintiff is limited in the amount of money they can extort.
She has more than a dozen LLCs just to protect what little she owns.
It depends on the bank. Some will open accounts for LLCs, some require ID cards for signers and corporate records to show that the person is authorized. It also depends on who is behind the desk, as someone who needs to meet their quotas for the day will be a lot more amenable.
I know this because my sister is a prominent ex-scientologist and they've been harassing her to the point that everything she owns needs to be in a separate LLC.
Well.. I have to agree that it might work in particular bank with particular rep. Although still - you will visit them in person, meaning you will get on all cameras..
What I am trying to bring - is that whole "untraceble" companies is not that easy. Although I bet having right people in a right departments might allow you to make one.
Existing iris scanners can be deceived by pictures of other people's irises. I do not doubt that facial recognition will be fooled by people making masks (to fool infrared scanning).
The basic principle of biometric reading is the equivalent to sliding your photo under the door to a guard. The guard checks the photo against an already existing set of photos and lets you in. They don't check that the photo is of you - which is a common failing when you let marketing design your security.
This is because everyone thinks a biometric is some sort of password. It is actually a username. You are stating I am the person whom my fingerprints/face/retinas state I am. Then the guard should challenge that person with that face to provide a password that is known to be held by that face.
Its a common fallacy that leads to people having their fingers chopped off to steal their fingerprint-recognising cars.
> The CEO of a company cannot "take back" or "wipe out" your right to purchase stock, aka stock options.
The folks who thought they had options at Skype found out that there were secret addenda to the option grant that let them swindle you out of your options when you leave.
I deny the charge that it was "going downhill" before all the deletions started. If the "quality" is declining, then it is due to the vast quantities of new questions being asked, and the inability of regular users to find questions that they can answer.
Yogi Berra described the situation as "Nobody goes there anymore. Its too crowded".
Not if a moderator locked and deleted it - a 10k user can then only view the question and vote to re-open it. Sometimes the moderators act extra viciously by editing each answer before deleting the answers as well. That way the user can't recover their own answers in order.
Because when it comes to changing passwords, it would take me about 45 minutes to come up with a new password that met the rules and had a reasonable chance of me remembering it. I took to writing them down as I was trying to come up with something, and keeping the paper handy for a few days because I'd frequently forget the passwords by lunchtime and lock myself out of the system.
One thing to remember about these rules is that there are some other ones not publicized. All you know when it refuses to take your password is that it says "password doesn't match" instead of "password doesn't meet the rules." I got some different error message when I tried using Russian obscenities, but I forget that error message.
This looks exactly like the Dept of Energy password guidlines when I worked there.
For item #5, you should be aware that they check for dictionary words of 3 or more letters, both forwards and backwards. I'm not sure what dictionaries they were using, but I found that most of the Japanese, Russian and Finnish words/phrases that I frequently pick from were forbidden.
