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I just noticed, as I add SMS 2-factor authentication to my contacts.app to keep them tidy, that 2-factor authentication, which I am using for Facebook ( only on the web, I was tired of their 300 pound app ) and Yahoo!, as well as eBay, all use the same SMS short code for 2-factor authenticating me.

Is this safe? This is a security feature, so I would assume you would not want other companies using your same short code, unless they were partners, or there was some shared authentication service they are using. Though I don't believe any of the SMS services out there are running low on short codes.

I am not aware of either of these 3 companies being in any form of an alliance. I have no idea who to contact about this, any suggestions?

If you are curious, the short code is 732-873, you may want to search your logs and see if that number shows up for even more companies that just the three I have located so far.

Thanks.

This has literally been going on for over a year, I can tell Comcast, but it is like talking into a black hole.

Traces from me, near always, look about like this: http://pastebin.com/81dvXj0v

Two offenders are always Level 3, always 60% loss or more:

ae-4-90.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net te-11-0-2.edge4.Frankfurt1.level3.net

There is still ~4% loss on the first node outside my network. Even the IP address I am given, and is a few feet away, has loss. I have tried this wired and wireless. I can load a page faster over a 3G wireless hotspot on my phone than I can wired. Oddly, I get 50+ Mbit on a speed test. But to try to load a heavy page like "the verge", with 14M+ and hundreds of files it is calling, never works.

Who do I report this to? How can this go on so long and not get solved?

Thank you for any pointers.

Hello, I have been looking at services that download my monthly bank, credit card, and other bills down automatically.

I tried this 6 months ago, and it was no where near ready. Today, I learned of https://filethis.com

It supports most of the cloud storage please, but I am actively trying to move away from the cloud; Especially for financial data.

I just went through all 400+ logins of mine, about 30% of those sites are now gone or worse, under some other domains owners control. Where is my data? Who would I even ask, and some of these are or were rather well known companies.

FileThis looked good, but not having some of the larger banks out there, that is a huge let down. And finally, if you want to just save the files to your local machine, you have to download some other app from them that would not install whatever it was supposed to to. San if I could even get it to partially open, it asked for my Filethis login and password, which it said were wrong, which of course, I had no trouble using to login to the main site. I use a password manager so no possible way to mess up.

I want to top using DropBox, they have the more horrible support, completely lie about bandwidth usage, and close accounts without reason.

So I started looking for alternatives. So any of them work with the local drive on your computer philosophy? I don't want to fire up and app and move files into it. That takes too long. I would like something like DropBox, that charges a fair price, gives you a fair amount of storage, and a fair amount of xfer. And ideally, in the web interface, a way to show how much has been xfered on a file so you can delete it if the URL leaks. Which was not the case for me, though somehow they claim sharing a link with my room mate, which was shared with no one else as it was a private picture she would be horrified if was shared.

How can a single jpg move GB of data in a day anyway, and how can it take them 10 days to enable my account and not reply in any sensical way to any of my questions on support.

Oh, and there is that issue of the Board members who shall not be named, and I believe a lack of local encryption before files are sent. Heck, they only recently turned on SSL for the app.

I am a lowly developer, used to to back end web development and network management, then the internet changed and everyone has their own little piece the dev pie and my brain can't keep up.

I have nn idea to make a database, a pure key value store, they key can be up to 63 characters, though possibly double that. The value can be up to 256 characteers. It will be redundant, load balanced, and able to return answers from anywhere in the world in fastest would be around 2ms, longest would be on average 40ms or so.

Bad idea, thought experiment, proof of concept?