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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by DanBC on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:06AM (#8515197)
Pizza has been used as a tool of harassment in the past. People order lots of pizza from different places for the victim, who then has to deal with a bunch of angry pizza drivers and being black-listed from those pizza places.

Pizza drivers are often the victims of crime. Not only for the small amounts of cash that they carry, but sometimes just for the pizzas.

edit: I should say that my comment here was a kneejerk reaction to "it's just pizza", and has nothing to do with how eatabit.com deals with this kind of harassment. i agree with other commenters that blog posts like these are a great way to promote the company.

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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by pliny on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:08AM (#8515202)
How are you going to exploit the fact that these pizza orders aren't encrypted to achieve either of those things?
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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by serf on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:08PM (#8516332)
that's the wrong question to ask.

We're not (all) in the "think-of-things-to-do-with-stolen-information" business like so many others are; but many of us are we're in the "encrypt-all-the-things-so-that-information-isn't-stolen" business.

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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by pjc50 on Monday October 27, 2014 @11:25AM (#8516016)
Encrypt the pizzas.
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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by DanBC on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:16AM (#8515238)
PIZZA IS SRS BSNS
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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by goleksiak on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:13AM (#8515231)
We use Twilio so we know our customer's phone numbers. If there were ever an issue like this, we could easily assist with a request by law enforcement.
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Re:Post Mortem: A single whitespace character by Someone1234 on Monday October 27, 2014 @10:11AM (#8515504)
Something something $1 SIM card from eBay.
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