What absolutely ridiculous places are these? Do you also get fired for lying to a friend, or wasting your personal money?

Does it work the other way as well, so you're forced to divorce your spouse if you make a bad business decision?

I would argue places with high trust and high accountability.

I am realizing that this is very foreign to some people and cultures. Among those who value honor, reputation, and trust the world is different.

Irresponsible enough with that money, and you lose govt. clearance and can't pass background checks (even civilian ones).

I think the issue is normally more that these might expose you to blackmail or extortion.

But that's ironically a non issue now that's it's front page press...lol.

It's a bit like celebrities who release embarassing photos themselves, to bypass hackers leaking them. (To be clear, I don't think the photos should be out either way, your private matters should stay private, celebrity or not, and it's horrid to have it dragged out in public. But I do admire the ballsiness in just releasing it themselves. And in this post-modern era, perversely some people seem to benefit from the exposure)

Likewise, if your lead investor cheats on their spouse, do you keep to keep the VC money and cancel their shares?

It's been working fine for me most days. I came here from there just now.

Yup, I specifically only linked working sites, since not all I checked were online anymore.

Why would you assume those are the most prominent search results, when they just said they were difficult to find?

> I regret getting a .io domain for my email and website; with the price increases, it's not far from $100/year.

$50 on Cloudflare where I have mine, so only halfway to $100, but still pretty expensive.

> Heck, I fondly remember my DOS days when directories and files were easily distinguishable, since the former ones were always written in CAPS.

That must have been the conventions of some third-party file manager (Norton Commander?), because DOS stored and showed everything as uppercase, both directories and files.

My memory might have failed me.

But I did mostly use Dos Navigator.

I finally gave up on using catch-all, and now only allow e-mail to addresses @mydomain.com that follow a certain pattern. If someone were to specifically target me and look closer at all the addresses I use, they would quickly figure out the pattern, but I see no reason why a spammer would do that.

*@mydomain.com worked fine for me for about 15 years, then suddenly spammers started doing exactly that, sending e-mails to random addresses. I would get countless copies of every spam message, addressed to completely random combinations of characters @mydomain.com.

I used to accept *@mydomain, until spammers started sending spam to completely random addresses. Suddenly I received hundreds of copies of every spam mail, addressed to random combinations of characters @mydomain.

Surely just knowing someone's account number can't be enough? Sweden's biggest bank uses your national identification number (equivalent to social security number) as your checking account number, and Sweden's national identification numbers are public information.

I don't know how it works in Sweden. Some accounts have more security. In the end if I know the right numbers (which may not be your national ID) I could drain your bank account - but I would be caught if I tried so even hardened criminals won't attempt it.