kind of but others are hard as well... most people don't change their name, date of birth or even email address when they are leaked.

These aren't really "credentials" in that they're not secret the way your iris/retina pattern, fingerprint pattern, password, pin, secret key, or security token are.

Your name, DoB, and email address are identifiers, yes, but aren't really authenticators - they're more like a username, not a password.

Is it OK for some Israelis to do genocide against Palestinians if some Palestinians tried to do genocide against Israelis? IMO no, there is no justification for anyone to do genocide.

I think that this is overstated, it takes ~15 minutes to set up SPF and DMARC correctly and few people run their own email servers.

https://workaround.org/ispmail-trixie/anti-spoofing-dkim-spf...

There was a plan in ~2016 backed by Zuckerberg, Hawking and some entrepreneur but it didn't really get anywhere (in a literal sense). Research for it stopped in 2022 because of a "lack of funding".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mark-zuckerber...

The internet, although I'm not convinced they can tell the difference. The web is of course part of the internet so both.

I'm a from england where we don't have mass shootings an this seems so fucked up to me, I'm so sorry for you that must be terrible even to be close to that. I've heard of shootings in america but this description just makes it so real.

I found https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/18/why-are-f... interesting. I think that it is a quite popular blog so you might have already heard about it. Here is the feed link: https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/feed