Am I to read your comment correctly as if to indicate that you are seriously validating the legitimacy of QAnon given their ostensible 'prediction' of COVID?
I don't know where you are, but in America you can request SIM replacements with the same number. These should be only in cases where you lose or damaged the original SIM, but either some staff got a bit lenient or the impostor have forged the necessary documents to prove ownership. Oh, and you can request it on-phone too (plus mailbox interception!)
It seems that in this case, the poster alleges that some staff might be actually involved in this process (which in this case, it's game over).
Like, contact the customer service hotline, and since they're sending the SIM card through the registered address, someone must get it in delivery. Alternatively, just literally ask the customer service to change the address. They should checked these kinds of requests, but considering that currently the T-mobile data leak is on the front page, you shouldn't be really shocked on how lax American security standards (except for their military) are.
Yes, as zinekeller said, they (T-Mobile support presumably) simply changed what SIM card was assigned to my account. Luckily, I received a disconnection notice on my phone as soon as this happened and was able to call T-Mobile (with my computer and Google Voice) to get it changed back.
However they should be storing hashed passwords instead of plaintext. If they are not, I dread to think what the underlying account codebase is like.
2FA is nice for extra account protection but this site doesn’t jump out to me as something that _needs_ it.
Not a fan of recovery questions personally. Recovery questions are just an extra step to password recovery. The thing is, they are generally either answers that are publicly a available if you know who the account belongs to or they are filled with red-hearings which often just gets forgotten by your “average jo/e” because they are rarely used.
However I wouldn’t say this website is very friend to data security. It’s well know that your average joe will reuse passwords. It only takes one DB dump to now have email/passwords which can be spammed into other more sensitive sites.
GPT-3 is a big data version of autocomplete. Just has a much bigger database and longer training than any autocomplete on your phone. But it's the same idea.
There's no "knowledge" here.
If instead of calling GPT-3 "AI" and instead we called it "Mega-Autocomplete" would you be just as wonderous about the outcome?
Their biggest line was "nothing can stop what is comming" and sure enough the biggest thing to ever happen happened, Covid.