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Seriously. During the signup process, they ask for some personal information: your name, home address, phone number, and Social Security Number. They hand it off to an identity verification service , which scrapes, say, public records and credit reports, to ask questions that only you can answer:
Freeways were supposed to be easy. What happened?
Earlier this week, someone who goes by slipstream (“pulling data out of DPRK’s ass since 2014!”) posted a torrent of North Korea’s Red Star 3.0 installer. My first instinct was to download and run it, because installing software from North Korea, what could possibly go wrong?
Lessons on incentives and scaling from two years as a teaching assistant