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I'll add another to that list:

-- People will never have a physical mailing address that contains "funny" numbers like "000", "420", "69420", or "80085".

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-- No one was born on 4/20/69

-- Forced SMS based MFA should be used to protect logins for mobile phone accounts

>Forced SMS based MFA should be used to protect logins

I have now closed three remote banking accounts (i.e. no nearby physical locations), after they began requiring 2FA via SMS [which I do not participate/allow/text].

My most-recent bank is literally down the street from me so I can walk over when 2FA becomes ubiquitous. Such an annoying "feature".

I used to work in a building in SF where the address was either 123 Main St. or 123 Mission St. Someone in sales had an issue giving that address to a cab driver, IIRC. Amusingly, the company did (and still does) ML for fraud detection.

Or that some towns may have... unusual substrings (Scunthorpe, Shitterton, Fingringhoe, and the ever-famous Fucking in Austria, now renamed to Fugging).

I once had a friend that lived at, no shit, 1337 High.

I used to live in Baltimore, where there are numbered streets that include ½ symbol streets, and worse, house numbers including ½ numbered houses.

I believe Galveston, TX has lettered half streets, example: 123 A ½ St

How does one enter "½" into a webform?

What’s funny about 420?

Look up 4/20.

Ah.

Well, that's pretty stupid. Are you going to rule out 911 and 666 and 13 too? (Not directed at you personally, it's a rhetorical question.)

Uh, no. Look up 4:20. The funny number is the time, not the date.

Oh! Just shows you how little I know about this stuff. Thanks!

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