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		piyh on Nov 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google users locked out after 15 years' use I'd imagine the average googler isn't going to be easily bribed compared to the alternative of finding some darknet service to figure out how to trigger an automatic ban by uploading malware to the site.

C1sc0cat on Nov 2, 2020 [–]

It would be lower wage support staff probably in in the USA not highly paid SV engineers.

Its the same in the UK where I used to work (British Telecom) criminals used to approach call centre workers to get info.

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