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mr_mitmtoday at 5:56 PM1 replyview on HN

It's a hard problem. How do you prove you own an account if you lost all proof of ownership? Especially so if an account was never tied to your real name, in which case you could at least rely on government ids.


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throwaway85825today at 6:27 PM

Simple, you don't. This is all going to seem quaint in a few years when old accounts started getting deleted for inactivity.