1y ago

"Anon" has problems with cybersecurity

Not a true greentext but I hope I have captured the spirit of it. (First time I wrote smth like this, don't be harsh on me. >w<)

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Use a password manager. Won't forget passwords anymore.
- proceeds to generate password for each service and forget the master password
  
  just use a password-manager-password password manager for the password manager password
  
  Write it down somewhere. Just do it by hand.
  
  just make the password a little story you can remember, e,g. "Carl+Lenny:go2a bar&spend$$$"
  
  My strategy for this is to have a second password manager available on a couple old devices, accessed with biometrics (fingerprint in this case), and only the master password saved within it.
  I considered saving it within the main manager itself, since I have devices where I can use biometrics rather than password, but that feels like a bad idea.
  Has definitely been a life saver
  
  Print out your recovery kit or master password and put it with your other documents (like birth certificate).
why is life like this?
Because someone else getting access to your email account nowadays is worse than losing your wallet, phone and keyring, combined.
- why is life like this?
  Because the whole thing started with anon forgeting their password, the solution for which should be complicated and secure, which it is.
  
  I locked myself out of my main email account once.
  I had set it up in the year 2000, when people didn't have mobile phones, so they sent a letter to your home address before they activated it.
  In the meantime, I had moved 11 times, updated my personal info on the site a few times, but never added a phone number or recovery mail address.
  So when I called the hotline and they asked me for my address to confirm I'm me, that was a hard one to answer. But I actually got it right in the second try, which was good enough.
  
  The new issue is that I don't remember the password for DICK. I know the password to like, my password manager, on a good day.
  There are like 500 other passwords I have to sift through to sign into anything
- Yet having your phone stolen, which is usually worse than that, is super easy, and if you're being mugged, the criminal will also force you to remove the pin/lock because that takes less than a minute.
Websites need desperately to display their password creation rules on login pages. If I knew this particular site had (for some dumbass reason) a maximum password length less than the length of the password I'd otherwise use on that site or (also completely unreasonably) restricts special characters, I can more easily figure out what password I used when I signed up with fewer wrong guesses, all without sacrificing any security. (It's not like the rules aren't public info that anyone can get. Just don't make me go halfway through the signup process to get that information if I'm just trying to log in.)
- Use a password manager, no need to remember shit then (besides your master password). For example if you want a local solution KeePass and sync the file (I use Dropbox, it's encrypted anyway). You can also access it on Android with the sync.
- Oh yeah, that would be a huge QoL thing.
  
  It would also let hackers know what combinations not to try.
  I have a better proposal: If your login page has any restriction on passwords (other than being part of Unicode and a max length of 128 characters) then your site should be shut down.
Life is like this because its easier on the developers than having to deal with the deluge angry customers losing all their shit to scammers because they use the same 5 character password for every site on the internet.
- Life is like that because some people are constantly trying to steal shit
Based and true
If you'd pirated the game you would have spent all that time playing it instead.
Write down your passwords on a piece of paper. That's literally more secure than keeping your stuff on your computer. It still won't stop the services from wanting to be double sure you're you because your browser's cookies got cleaned
Also, reset your steam password from a browser, never from the program itself. Fucking captcha never works properly on the fucking program.
- I would argue that as long as you're careful not to get any malware keepassXC is a lot more secure and comfortable to use than tying out the passwords one by one again. Or in general your own vault warden server
real
Sounds made up.
- Nah this is actually how using steam + Gmail is.
- Nope, I shared my experience on discord in greentext format because I found the whole process funny (not hating on security) and then thought that it would be a good idea to post it on lemmy too.
- I still use matrix for my group and other groups that use it. It's not easy to quit discord with so many projects being there.
  Edit: nvm, I forgot where I posted it and misunderstood what was your point.

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