One one hand, I can see the captcha is easy to fall for. On the other, nothing says "prove you aren't a machine" like "run this code that a machine could easily run."
Experian allows unfreezing via their site in the article. If someone can easily recreate your account, they can unfreeze it which makes it pretty useless.
Yes, but if you have an account you’ll at least get an email notifying you that your account’s email address has changed (as a result of someone recreating your account). That’s how I was tipped off to someone trying to buy a car in my name (by pulling on the thread of calling customer support asking wtf I got that email). So it’s very useful to at least have an Experian account so you can know when someone is trying to go after you this way.
Now granted, it’s possible that the attacker won’t change your email address first, in which case I’m not sure if you get an email stating that your credit was unfrozen. But it’s likely they’ll change it in order to make it harder for you to mitigate the damage in a timely manner.
I shared this elsewhere but I could have expressed the initial problem a little clearer, which actually was "enter my home without unlocking my phone which causes my phone to die in the cold."
Unlocking the screen caused the battery to drop immediately - it still had network connectivity prior to that.
I think the initial problem was clearly-enough stated, and the GP's point is valid - why bother accounting for the case where your phone is so close to dying that you can't unlock the screen, when just a bit less battery life would mean that your phone dies regardless (and you're stuck outside anyways)?
The battery level isn't actually close to dying, in my case it just rapidly depletes from up to 40% when it's very cold. But that 40% remains intact seemingly with the screen off. Could be my phone also, but it has happened often enough that I wanted to solve it and thought this was an interesting approach.
For me, this was just a matter of convenience and not optimizing for most resilient or reliable solution. I do have backup plans for home entry.
Batteries are generally less able to source current when very cold. At low temperatures, the battery was sufficient to power your phone in a low-draw state (minimal network activity, no screen, low power CPU state), but the voltage dropped when current draw increased.
I experienced this. I ran to work at -10F. When I arrived, I took out my phone to take a photo of my ice beard and although it almost immediately died.
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