Maybe the EU encourages overuse of the “I’m Number One” philosophy generally. I got my GMail account back in 2005, when it was “by invitation”; a few years ago, a man who lived in Poland, was near in age to me, and had there the same name as I then had signed up for GMail but wanted exclusive rights to use my name on grounds he was born first; he appeared to then be a professor, and began pestering my inbox with photos of his prestigious life and “daring” me to show I could do more to “warrant” use of the name; Google always ignored him, as did I despite constant razzing…rather than rely on things like distant relationship to writer Hannah Arendt and so on in idiotic oneupsmanship, I had some people in EU nation infosec inquire as to what his beef was; not a peep since.

Thanks for another great article, cheers!