Antony Male

@bookingcom That's all well and good, but someone has accessed a lot of my booking details recently, and has built a site to phish booking.com users. If a breach has occurred you have a legal obligation to inform those affected quickly. If no breach occurred, what happened?

@antonymale Hi there, we understand your concern and we do our very best to make sure our system remains secure for all our guests and partners. We have responded to your DM. lease, check. Thank you.

Hey @bookingcom. I just got spear-phished by someone who had my booking number, booking dates, hotel, name, and phone. Have you been breached? What's going on?

@bookingcom So you and the hotel are both blaming each other? This breach surely poses a high risk to the rights and freedoms of affected individuals, and under GDPR you need to notify them without undue delay.

Hi there, your data is normally protected with us. If you received WhatsApp conversation it is very likely coming from the system of the accommodation. Just please, bear in mind that we never ask for your payment information on the phone and we do not offer customer service on WhatsApp. We always recommend checking that you are speaking with a verified account on social media; whether it is us or another business. You will usually see a tick next to a verified account: - Twitter has a yellow tick, which highlights that an account is verified because it's an official organization on Twitter. - Facebook has a blue tick which shows that Facebook has confirmed that this profile is authentic. - Instagram also has a blue tick showing the account is verified. If you are unsure, you can check how long the profile has been active, the number of followers and any previous posts made. This will help you work out if the account is legitimate. Let us know if you have other questions. Kind regards.

@bookingcom The hotel said "We have learned of irregularities with Booking.com which resulted in guests of many hotels being contacted via WhatsApp and asked for payment" which sounds like you've been breached. Shouldn't you inform those affected, so they can avoid being phished?

@bookingcom Will do shortly, thanks. I didn't fall for it, but they have a very convincing landing page set up to take card details, which rather suggests that they've got a lot of breached details to work with.

@DaveGorman Wingding? youtube.com/watch?v=AeSH4J…

@troyhunt @stripe UK here. Things like lunch are a one-off: makes sense for someone to put in on their card then expense it. For recurring costs which might be mission-critical, that doesn't make sense: people leave, go on holiday, etc. Much better to bill to finance dept, and that means invoices

@stripe Loads of interesting responses here, thank you all for the input. There’s a lot of curious geographic variances: for those saying credit cards are an absolute no-no, how do you pay for: - Tickets to a conference - Lunch for the team - Taxi or hotel expenses when you travel

We often receive comments to the effect of “we want to purchase a @haveibeenpwned subscription but our company doesn’t allow us to use a credit card”. What is the financial reason behind this? This is a very small portion compared to those that *do* pay by card, but why is this?

@stoofer2 @PathoPhyto (The photo doesn't show the hotel grounds as it claims. The hotel is just the structure in the background, which looks intact (fingers crossed!). I was there last year)

@stoofer2 @PathoPhyto The hotel in the background is the Boutique 5 hotel and spa. In the foreground I think is a stables. maps.app.goo.gl/3gdRz9sNfoZcyo…

Hey @PureAudioWorld . Can I set up custom internet radio stations on the Evoke Spot? The only info I can find online is for the Elan Connect. Thanks!

@engineers_feed You now enter positive feedback until either the wheels or the conveyor fail, or the wind induced by the now-hypersonic conveyor tears the plane apart

@engineers_feed The conveyor tears itself apart. Start with everything stationary. Then apply a small force to the plane. The wheels turn slightly, so the conveyor's control system drives it backwards to match the wheel speed. But now the wheels are being driven by the conveyor and speed up more

We should all get the same answer folks 💪🏼

@AdmiralUK Hi. I sent you a DM this morning

@antonymale Good afternoon Anthony and thank you for contacting us. I am sorry to hear of your experience. If you could just send us a direct message, I will be able to respond to you with an update. Many thanks twitter.com/messages/compo…

Still waiting to get car in for repairs. Over 48 hours have passed. Any idea when? @AdmiralUK @Motor_Ombudsman @fixautouk #fixautoukofficial

@AdmiralUK I must say, this is a kick in the teeth to your own customers. We want to hear an apology for your shocking service, and a plan and timeline for how you will improve and get our trust back, not you patting yourselves on the back, apparently ignorant of how bad things are

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@AdmiralUK Right, and it's within those hours at the moment, yet web chat is not available. It hasn't been available the other times I've tried to access it either.

@antonymale Hi there. Sorry to hear this, the opening hours for webchat are : 8am- 6pm. If you need any help, please send across a DM and I will be happy to assist you.

@AdmiralUK how do I get in touch About cancelling a car insurance policy? Not had a reply when I’ve tried to do it online keep getting the websites robot 😵‍💫

@AdmiralUK @ChristieLee1989 Your webchat doesn't work. "Contact us online" here admiral.com/contact-us/car doesn't actually let you start a web chat.

@ChristieLee1989 Hi there :) You can either call us, use webchat or DM.

@AdmiralUK claims are literally impossible to get hold of. The system hangs up on you if you're in a queue for half an hour. Although if you get lucky and are shuffled between queues, it can be an hour or more before you get hung up on! Pathetic. Avoid at all costs.

@AvfcRick @rachelparris @StephenMangan @davechannel I love that one of the live changes to the script itself became out of date around the time that recording finished...

@BelloneDavide It was introduced for async/await, so that's one obvious use case. Pub/sub is another, where the publisher fails and the subscriber wants to be notified on a different thread. Related: doing an operating in the background and notifying the UI thread of failure

@antonymale Never heard of it! Why should you capture and reuse it? I can't think of any use case

🌊 C#: "throw" or "throw ex"? 🌊 If you rethrow an exception with "throw ex", you override the Stack Trace. Do it carefully: resetting the Stack Trace can be useful to avoid leaking information (if you're exposing a service) but can make debugging harder. #csharp #dotnet