My partner is Jewish and used the service to learn more about her ancestry. This sucks.
Is it just me or does it seem it’s a really bad idea to buy into any product that involves accumulating PII? I’m old enough to have noticed that in nearly every instance that data is either misused, stolen, or used as intended for a really shitty purpose.
If your primary business is handling extremely sensitive information… you should probably force people into 2FA as standard procedure.
23 and me are far from the only company not doing that, though… mostly because they thing people will run away screaming to the lie competitors if they do.
Which, to be fair, is possibly true. People are dumb like that,
It’s not that hard to set up OTP 2FA. It’s actually fairly easy- I managed it on my private cloud server and home security/automation server.
At least according to an atheist Jewish ex of mine, it's fine to use "Jewish" to refer to the ethnicity too. She would just specifically "ethnically Jewish" or "religiously Jewish" or whatever else if it wasn't clear from context - neither being more or less Jewish than the other.
As someone of almost entirely Ashkenazi heritage, all I can say is I'm glad I never used 23andMe, but I'm scared for a lot of my fellows.
As someone who is 50% Ashkenazi and on 23andMe, I’m not super happy
My partner is Jewish and used the service to learn more about her ancestry. This sucks.
Is it just me or does it seem it’s a really bad idea to buy into any product that involves accumulating PII? I’m old enough to have noticed that in nearly every instance that data is either misused, stolen, or used as intended for a really shitty purpose.
Not really 23andMe's fault if people don't secure their accounts properly
I’m mixed on that score.
If your primary business is handling extremely sensitive information… you should probably force people into 2FA as standard procedure.
23 and me are far from the only company not doing that, though… mostly because they thing people will run away screaming to the lie competitors if they do.
Which, to be fair, is possibly true. People are dumb like that,
It’s not that hard to set up OTP 2FA. It’s actually fairly easy- I managed it on my private cloud server and home security/automation server.
This company should be sued/fined out of existence as an example to others.
They have 2fa but it's optional
Bullshit. They have no limit on how many failed login attempts you can do.
You don't need multiple failed logins if you have the email and password though
They could force 2FA if the login is coming from a new IP.
If Steam can do it, so can 23andme.
How can you tell a person's religion from their DNA?
“Jewish” is an ethnicity as well as a religion so one can be ‘of Jewish descent’ without practicing Judaism.
I think that’s the short answer.
Please correct me if I got any terminology muddled up.
At least according to an atheist Jewish ex of mine, it's fine to use "Jewish" to refer to the ethnicity too. She would just specifically "ethnically Jewish" or "religiously Jewish" or whatever else if it wasn't clear from context - neither being more or less Jewish than the other.
I could explain it, but this would do a much better job:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews
Haha good one