Problem is data theft doesn't meet the criteria of identify theft. You can't change your SSN until you have proof of identity theft, not a data breach.
I'm typically not particularly paranoid, but if a state actor wanted to destabilize the US economy, increasing the rate of fraud via identity theft sounds like a great way to do it. Crank it up just enough to hurt the economy, but not quite enough to break the identity status quo....
The leak of this data basically enables a denial of service attack against parts of the economy dependent on personal identity.
I know this is somewhat off point, but there's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division happening here when considering risk - individually, my chance of impact is low (I think?), but as a society, the risk of impact is very high.
I think that makes it worth replacing everyone's SSN, at a minimum.
Is there an actual use case for a commercial terminal emulator? Termite and Deepin Terminal both work splendidly for about every use case I can come up with.
My understanding is that these commercial terminals tend to be focused on emulating non-standard terminals used by by systems like IBM mainframes, etc. which are in no way VT100 compatible.
I believe that these products are also optimized for allowing non-technical staff to use old 'greenscreen' terminal UI applications. These products usually have features like macros for commonly-used sequences of key-combos, and they also do things like figuring out if the screen is showing a menu, and turning the menu entries into something that can be clicked by a mouse so it isn't entirely keyboard driven.
For a dev and/or ops person on a modern Linux system, there's almost certainly no reason to look into this stuff.
> My understanding is that these commercial terminals tend to be focused on emulating non-standard terminals used by by systems like IBM mainframes, etc. which are in no way VT100 compatible.
If Gen Z joins other Facebook-owned social networks in stead it won't hurt them in the least. Facebook might not be hype anymore but Instagram and WhatsApp seem to do just fine with the young ones, at least as far as I can tell as someone in his 30s.
Well arguably facebook the product has been the problem, not facebook the coorporation. Those other products you mention don't have the same "put all information about yourself on here" design, and nowhere near the amount of news/politics on them.
The other products Facebook own literally are "put all information about yourself on here" applications? I notice that if I talk about something on whatsapp I see some sort of ad on instagram around it etc.
Supposing that the focus switches from Facebook to these other platforms how long until you see exactly the same patterns in these applications? We're talking about Facebook's core monetization strategy here, if they feel it's threatened I'm sure they'll do everything they can to "correct" that.
I agree, but the full effect of Gen Z won't be felt for 5 or 10 years. And they're definitely on Instagram, which still provides much more targeting ability to an advertiser than every other social site in the world apart from LinkedIn. Twitter doesn't even register.
> And they're definitely on Instagram, which still provides much more targeting ability to an advertiser than every other social site in the world apart from LinkedIn.
Can you explain this? I've put far less info into my Instagram profile than I have any other social network. They definitely slurped up my FB profile, but they wouldn't have that advantage for someone who skipped it. I'm a very light user of Instagram, so I think I'm missing something.
Less Instagram and more snap for the younger kids.
In general, I find each generation has its own preferred social platform — Facebook for generation X, Instagram for millennials, and Snap for whatever we’re calling whoever comes after. Each of these platforms seems to reflect the collective concerns of each generation.
I think FB has scooped up the older half of millennials. FB was the hot thing as they were just getting to college, when it was still limited to college kids. We can't discount outside of US/Europe though — they're big over there too.
As for Snap, they definitely have Gen Z or whatever it's called, but I don't think the data on Snap is as strong. And Instagram has a strong hold on them too. Most teenagers I know keep Snap/Insta, and if they had to pick between the two, it'd be Insta.
Yes, I think there's a natural "churn" with these things. A lifecycle was first identified for MUD users decades ago, and there are already ""dead"" social networks to show that it can happen: Bebo, Orkut, Myspace, and so on.
