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[–] spv@lemmy.spv.sh 16 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

where's the shovel and double-ziplocs to bury your cash, silver, gold, platinum, and palladium? or the zippo to burn your prints off? get on my level, ho

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Hey! I resemble this remark!

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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What's with the diss on Malwarebytes?

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (5 children)

Mainly because it's proprietary, privacy invasive by nature, and invasive on computers.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago

It’s also a shit product riding on marketing laurels from its past glory days, like Norton. It leaves pieces behind that can cause malware to come roaring back.

It isn’t hard to just nuke a system or restore a backup people.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 12 hours ago

They're taking it too seriously lol

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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 56 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

Pretty sure banks have a pretty good track record of "keeping your money safe". Why the fork would anybody trust banks to keep their money safe if they can't keep your money safe?

I don't really understand why that statement is even on there?

Unless you mean to argue some anonimity point, which I could agree with considering e.g. Monero would be more anonymous than a bank.

But safe? I'd say the bank is quite safe to store money.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 12 hours ago

Banks literally seize and freeze assets from people, e.g. Julian Assange.

Banks have also a track record of seizing countries international reserves like Russia, Venezuela, Iran, etc...

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Money in the bank can be seized and frozen for all sorts of reasons. If you're in the USA, then police can charge your money with a crime even if you haven't broken any laws. It's safe until it's not.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 hours ago

Can confirm. about 15 years ago, my bank account was frozen for 3 weeks for child-support enforcement. Only they weren't talking about my kid or even me. Some dude in Florida with my same first and last name, was a deadbeat dad. So they froze my account because apparently he didn't have a bank account or something.

What's super annoying about it is that we had different middle names, not even close to the same social security number, and not one person even contacted me before my bank account was frozen. I only found out because I check I wrote or something bounced. And I was like, WTF?

I was finally able to talk to enough bank people to clear it up. But it took 3 weeks. I never got an apology for it either. Adn the fuckers did not refund my insufficient funds fee. I mean, it was only $15 bucks, and it would have cost me more than that in my time to get a refund, but still...

So yeah, even here in the US, banks can suck.

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