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Re:Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, ... by xxpor on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:58PM (#28250692)
How do they bootstrap the verification when you say you lost your key?
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Re:Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, ... by discardable_dan on Friday August 20, 2021 @05:01PM (#28251370)
You can read more here: https://www.wikiprocedure.com/index.php/Denmark_-_Replace_Lo...
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Re:Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, ... by mjevans on Friday August 20, 2021 @05:14PM (#28251480)
That's an annoying denial of service attack; and you would typically do this by making the burn require very little authentication and the recovery a visit to a local government office, such as the police or a court.
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