Hacker News: yorerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yorerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:30:41 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by yorer in "How to lose a fortune with one bad click"]]>Ideally yes no one would fall for that. But these type of attacks doesn't just rely on solely ignorance. They introduced urgency, the fight or flight situation. Plus the first guy in the article got caught up in bad timing where his mental condition aren't right with his kid crying, his wife yelling etc.

]]>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:46:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42470639yorerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42470639https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42470639<![CDATA[New comment by yorer in "Itch.io Taken Down by Funko"]]>They already got your details from your card details and decide its enough. Something like vpn, using niche browser, details on card not tally with registration details etc etc would throw off their threat mitigation system. Also different business operated differently, their payment gateway behave differently etc etc. Too many random factor to avoid xxx specific registrar because they ask for kyc when the kyc itself is a requirement.

]]>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 09:06:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364303yorerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364303https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364303<![CDATA[New comment by yorer in "Itch.io Taken Down by Funko"]]>That kyc thingy is icann requirement, its how domain registration works. Icann require every accredited registrar to verify registrant details so registrar would randomly ask for id, passport etc. That include porkbun, they're bound to their contract with icann as an accredited registrar too. They probably won't ask today but maybe tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year, or never.

]]>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:38:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364149yorerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364149https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364149<![CDATA[New comment by yorer in "Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz"]]>The always-search-instead-of-bookmark practice is then introduced this situation https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sneaky-amazon...

Its really an unsolvable cat and mouse game without proper familiarising oneself with the dos and don'ts of the internet.

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