Usernames are a thing now, so it’s no longer necessary to share your phone number with other users.

Worth noting is that “good” database design evolved over time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization). If anything was setup pre-1970s, they wouldn’t have even had the conception of the normal forms used to cut down on data duplication. And even after they were defined, it would have been quite a while before the concepts trickled down from acedmemia to the engineers actually setting up the databases in production.

On top of that, name to SSN is a many-to-many relationship - a single person can legally change their name, and may have to apply for a new SSN (e.g. in the case of identity theft). So even in a well normalized database, when you query the data in a “useful” form (e.g. results include name and SSN), it’s probably going to appear as if there are multiple people using the same SSN, as well as multiple SSNs assigned to the same person.

grep -r string .

The flag should go before the pattern.

-r to search recursively, . refers to the current directory.

Why use . instead of *? Because on it’s own, * will (typically) not match hidden files. See the last paragraph of the ‘Origin’ section of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming). Technically your ls command (lacking the -a) flag would also skip hidden files, but since your comment mentions finding the string in ‘any files,’ I figured hidden files should also be covered (the find commands listed would also find the hidden files).

EDIT: Should have mentioned that -R is also recursive, but will follow symlinks, where -r will ignore them.

Since most phones (if not all), use an encrypted filesystem. With such, no service can’t start if the device isn’t initially unlocked after reboot, including Find my device.

Android developers can specify that their apps need to run before the pin is entered, via direct boot mode. This is how alarms still work, even if your phone takes an upgrade overnight, and restarts automatically as part of that process.

I can’t say whether Google’s Find My Device currently does this, but there is no technical reason it can’t.

At 1:30 in that second video, he shows that YouTube already converts dot zip domains, even in old comments that predate the domain’s existence. At 3:19, he shows/mentions Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I would consider those major platforms. And keep in mind, it only takes one person downloading one file to cause major damage - the LMG hack was due to someone downloading and trying to open a fake PDF that was sent via email: https://youtu.be/yGXaAWbzl5A.

So yes, not everything does or will auto convert the links, but I think you are underestimating the potential for issues here.

See https://youtu.be/GCVJsz7EODA and https://youtu.be/V82lHNsSPww

There are a few problems, but I believe the biggest issue is that .zip and .mov are valid and common file extensions, and it’s common for people to write something like ‘example dot zip’ or ‘attachment dot mov’ in emails, tweets, etc. Things like email clients have features where they automatically convert text that looks like a web address into clickable links. So now, retroactively, all those emails etc suddenly have a link, where they used to just have text, and the domains that are equivalent to those previously benign file names are being purchased by nefarious actors to exploit people unaware of the issue.

Where do they come from?

That sidesteps my point, which was that “rights” are granted by governments (the first of those two, jury trial, is literally in “The Bill of Rights”). You can disagree about what should be a right, and in a country with a democratic procedure for determining rights, you can vote to change what is considered a right, but whether it requires a service or not is irrelevant.

Healthcare requiring service does not preclude it from being a right.

Your right to a jury trial depends on the service of your fellow citizens, as well as the judge, etc.

Your right to vote depends on the service of many volunteers to work the polls, count votes, etc.

Rights are granted and protected by governments; whether they require a service is irrelevant.

Paraphrasing the waiter rule: a state that abuses any of it’s residents is not a nice state. Yes, quality of life is a relative scale, but I think it’s fair to put the states actively making worse the lives of it’s citizens (marginalized or not) at the bottom of the list.