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Lance R. Vick

It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

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@lrvick WTF. Hopefully they will pay for this!

Janet Vertesi

@lrvick So, out of curiosity, what kind of phone do you have? (Or non-phone)?

Cavyherd

@lrvick

Long comment thread, so apologies to anyone who got there sooner but: have you contacted the Electronic Frontier Foundation? Ping @eff

Lance R. Vick

1. Buy expired NPM maintainer email domains.
2. Re-create maintainer emails
3. Take over packages
4. Submit legitimate security patches that include package.json version bumps to malicious dependency you pushed
5. Enjoy world domination.

Lance R. Vick

I just noticed "foreach" on npm is controlled by a single maintainer.

I also noticed they let their personal email domain expire, so I bought it before someone else did.

I now control "foreach" on NPM, and the 36826 projects that depend on it.

Lance R. Vick

EU to Facebook, Apple, Signal, Telegram, etc.: Open your APIs and play nice with others, or GTFO.

If this sticks it will be a massive win for an open internet.

matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/int

Lance R. Vick

I ordered new chicken friends on the internet.

Lance R. Vick

A popular analytics company went under and I bought their domain. A number of highly trusted corporate websites still blindly execute JavaScript from this domain.

What would you do with this power?

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