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Maybe you are into heavily armed and armored moving vans.
Into dogfighting dogs.
Chromed designer multi-tools.
Or simply larger than usuan money sinks.
Drake's DefenceCon is upon us!
So brace your wallets gentlemen, gentleladies and gentle-furrballs from Alpha Centauri!
 

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1. Put wallet and credit cards in safe.

2. Eat key.

By the time you poop it back out the sale will be over.
 

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Once in a while you read a sentence that has probably never been written before.
Between P.G.Wodehouse, the whole of Monty Python, Benny Hill and those guys that wrote the scripts for Little Britain I simply can not trust an Englishman's word on what has or hasn't been written before.

Coin one clever phrase and your name shall live on in perpetuity.
~Anonymous~
 

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1. Put wallet and credit cards in safe.

2. Eat key.

By the time you poop it back out the sale will be over.
The issue is the credit card now exists as a digital construct. Best to simply lock oneself in the safe and hope someone finds you before your demise. Or perhaps a few week comma would be abeter option. I personally click buy so quickly I think I might have timetraveled backwards slighly
 

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I personally click buy so quickly I think I might have timetraveled backwards slighly
Who knows.
Maybe you didn't click yourselve.
Its like those calls from your Internet provider.
"Would you be interested in?" and "Thank you for your purchase!" are almost in one sentence. See you on the next monthly bill pal!
Seems like under some circumstances an offer and a done deal are one and the same.
Its a bit like dealing with the Godfather.
Some offers you can not refuse.
Capice?
😎
 

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I personally click buy so quickly I think I might have timetraveled backwards slighly
Who knows.
Maybe you didn't click yourselve.
Its like those calls from your Internet provider.
"Would you be interested in?" and "Thank you for your purchase!" are almost in one sentence. See you on the next monthly bill pal!
Seems like under some circumstances an offer and a done deal are one and the same.
Its a bit like dealing with the Godfather.
Some offers you can not refuse.
Capice?
😎
 
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The issue is the credit card now exists as a digital construct. Best to simply lock oneself in the safe and hope someone finds you before your demise. Or perhaps a few week comma would be abeter option. I personally click buy so quickly I think I might have timetraveled backwards slighly
Mine is physical. I am not stupid enough to add it to my phone.

Physical is best.

Talking of physical it is time for my morning poop. Won't need to fish out any credit cards either - I've been good.

Have a nice day all.
 

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I totally get it. I work with identity and identity protection software all the time... and as a result, my credit card details aren't on my phone either.
Basically any of us who work in the realms of IT or Cybersecurity do the complete opposite of the general public when it comes to anything to do with IT or security lol :D
 
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Oh, I work in IT and still got a debit card thats good for around 100 € max a day on my phone/watch.
Everything else I carry on my body or keep it locked up.
Verry solid, very physical locks, mind you... 😎
 
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I totally get it. I work with identity and identity protection software all the time... and as a result, my credit card details aren't on my phone either.
And yet your identity and credit card number are all over the web. Even with only having a physical copy, any online purchase, any purchase at all, in fact, with a credit card makes a digital fingerprint, and with so much leaky software, it's amazing the whole system is not just a bunch of fraudulent transactions.
 
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And yet your identity and credit card number are all over the web. Even with only having a physical copy, any online purchase, any purchase at all, in fact, with a credit card makes a digital fingerprint, and with so much leaky software, it's amazing the whole system is not just a bunch of fraudulent transactions.
Yep. It's a mess out there. This is why I work with identity and not credit card security. And yet... that's only as secure as the user is anyway. Or an idiot programmer.
 

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Yep. It's a mess out there. This is why I work with identity and not credit card security. And yet... that's only as secure as the user is anyway. Or an idiot programmer.
Hey now, not all programmers are idiots; some are just fools. The best part is that all that faulty legacy code has now been digested and rewritten by AI code bots who only know what the meatbags wrote to solve a similar issue. Not that I minded fixing bugs or patching security flaws, but it was hard to justify it as having the impact required for my role level, and none of the jr developers wanted to touch it since it didn't help with their promo packets.

So, back to identity theft and credit cards: it doesn't really matter what you do unless you manage to be born in a country without any computer systems. It's mostly just random chance, slightly modified by where you go and where you swipe your card. Otherwise, your data is just being bought and sold in massive databases, crunched by algorithms that don't care about you as an individual—just as an identifiable marketing demographic.
 
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So, back to identity theft and credit cards: it doesn't really matter what you do unless you manage to be born in a country without any computer systems. It's mostly just random chance, slightly modified by where you go and where you swipe your card. Otherwise, your data is just being bought and sold in massive databases, crunched by algorithms that don't care about you as an individual—just as an identifiable marketing demographic.
You're making living as a marketing demographic sound perfect.
 
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