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Re:Ask HN: Please critique my personal digital security stra... by toocool on Sunday September 10, 2017 @03:24AM (#15211145)
Haha I hope you're not being serious. If I had to estimate the probability of Google ever blocking my account over my life time I'd say 0.01%, whereas the probability of someone successfully attacking my mail server/dns records/... if I really became a target would be easily 100%.
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Re:Ask HN: Please critique my personal digital security stra... by pmlnr on Sunday September 10, 2017 @03:28AM (#15211159)
Oh, I'm completely serious. Random bots attacking my server, sure, but that's not what I meant, the real problem is targeted attacks and spearfishing. The difference is: I can move my domain, I can move my server to another system, build defenses, if needed, whereas who's gmail address gets blocked or reused (though this latter is more frequent with tumblr and instagram handles), there are no options.

Also, I wasn't asking for chances, but for risks.

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Re:Ask HN: Please critique my personal digital security stra... by j_s on Monday September 11, 2017 @08:55AM (#15218117)
Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF DISCOURSE | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15197357 (flagged, 44 comments, Sep 2017)

Don't ever do a chargeback! (This is actually a great way to shutdown an account you don't want...)

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