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MCN wrote: | My beef with cloud is also a network access issue.
I don't always have Internet for weeks at a time.
So manage with sticks and ssd drives.
Sandisc had some apps on one of the sticks that could crash through the work's security system and break out into the www. Freedom. The work blocked all social media and personal email. So it was a nightmare skyping home from brasil. Bastirts...
But the sandisc stick worked.
I don't know how.
We also had a guy wrote software to thwart the Great Wall of China. Not for sale, I gave sticks to his Chinese pals.
We do no know we are living in the west.
I will revisit my cloud aversion. Lots of good info here. |
That'll be a VPN then. Your work security is shite. |
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Robby wrote: | My stock advice then for people who don't want to learn all this shit, and just want it to work.
Use a password manager. Let the password manager create and store your passwords. This means you never re-use a password.*
Have a strong password for your password manager, and for your microsoft and/or google accounts. They may also be doing password manager stuff for you, or even storing the master password for your other password manager. It's hard to avoid doing this.
Your 3 master passwords (password manager, google, microsoft) do not need to be impossible to remember. You're avoiding them being easily brute forced, or guessed by someone that knows you. The attacker probably only has a handful of attempts before lockout anyway. So don't go locking yourself out of your own accounts over a password you can't remember. It's also OK to write it down and keep that piece of paper somewhere safe - no-one is breaking into your house to find your password.
*re-use the biggest problem. If your google account is the same as your BCF password, and someone extracts that password from BCF, they have your google password.
Apart from that, leave auto-update turned on for everything. |
I'd also add that complex passwords with indecipherable text, numbers and special characters are hard to remember and honestly counter productive. Entropy and password length are key here. Use the multiple random word method and you're golden.
The one built into KeepassXC is excellent... |
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I occasionally get phishing emails, something along the lines of "we saw you watching pr0n through your webcam* send us 1 bitcoin to shred the evidence!!! To prove we are the haxxor your password is..." and then it's something I haven't used since the '90s (before I knew better)
*Which would be amazing since desktop PCs don't have built-in webcams. ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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