My view with the increase and reliance on technology is to expect more disruptions. So, try and have a plan B for when the power failures occur. Most people are glued to their devices, and have serious problems in coping without them for any period of time. It’s a huge issue in society, that we’re all part of, to some extent, also being fuelled by Government and Business forcing people to adopt this stuff. A bit like trying to live without a credut card. Social engineering, I believe.
How are we forced to be glued to our devices?
For example trying to contact a business that does not have a phone number, or having constant battles with providers to send paper invoices to my house.
I can’t see how either of those examples are social engineering. If a genuine business is so foolish to not have a phone number how would they do business? Even if it was so vote with your feet and deal with others. We will not get service from business unless we demand it.
Trying to eliminate paper invoices is a growing trend, the motive is money nothing more. If you count that as social engineering (which I don’t) it has been going on for millennia and didn’t need to the digital era to b…
Not forced but very heavily encouraged to do so. Questions like “what’s your best phone number” and then expecting it to be a mobile. Another is QR codes eg for The Virus. Almost obligated that your login involves an email address and the fact that even a login is almost a requirement to access a lot of services eg MyGov.
Groan! Tell me about it! A great example of a reasonably good idea badly implemented. It is as if they took the 19th century quill pen bureaucratic mindset and automated it - slowly.
Now replication at a State level in Qld “QGov” and almost mandatory to have if you deal with any State agency. Have other States started?
This is another Topic sorry but shows how online presence has become virtually a necessity of our lives.
Not exactly glued to, but in possession of.
I have a number of recent transactions/registrations that mandated a mobile number. One time codes via SMS seem all in vogue these days. Ring them and their first response is what code did we just send you? The alternative Q&A is nothing less than irritating and time wasting.
However Cash is quickly becoming the outlier in financial transactions in Australia (and some other Countries).
True and cash puts the dollar in a pocket. But cash becoming the outlier is easily explained beyond mere convenience or potential security (or related fraudulent transactions) because a card transaction puts a dollar in a pocket, and another dollar in another pocket, (both out of your own pocket one way or another), directly or indirectly.
An example of the drive to Card ‘convenience’ is that everywhere before The Virus, “Tap and Go” transactions were $100 now at Costco and others that supposedly hard limit has been raised substantially to the point it rivals our weekly grocery spend
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