https://sh.itjust.works/post/39160164

Might be an interesting thread to read.

Many says that your system is “better than the average person reusing the same password”, but still not better than a password manager, and that you can’t “out remember a machine”. Many have also pointed out that data breaches and hacking is actually very common these days, all an attacker would need is 2 sample and they would see the pattern; On top of that, with the development of AI, there could eventually be a bot that would to test variations of jusr one leaked password and attack your acounts on different websites, then you’d have to change all your passwords, instead of just one. Someone also said that, this is essentially like a Master Password of a password vault + a “Salt” as your passwords, and the password is only as secure as those few unique characters, which could be cracked very easily.

Perhaps a pc you gotta use you don’t trust completely so loggin in with your master passsord in a cloud based password manager, isn’t a good idea, even if you only want the password for a not so important service, you’d still be exposing yourself unnecessarily.

Pre-Smartphone Era, you’d have a point.

These days, everyone has a smartphone that is compatible with password managers.

The Standard Operating Procedue is:

1. Don’t log in on an untrusted machine

2. If you must do it*, then find the password on your phone and type that in to the computer.

Then after you’re done, you generate a new password on your phone password manager app and change it using your phone.

If you don’t like to be distracted by smartphones, you can carry one turned off. If you don’t want to carry one for privacy reasons: Use an Offline Password Manager (Keepass) on Graphene OS, another Open Source Operating System, or a phone that has removable battery and with airplane mode on all the time.

If you need a password for work and work doesn’t allow phones, memorize that password on top of your password manager’s vault password. Two passwords to remember are still better than remembering 20.

What if you want to type in your password in a printer with limited capability? You’d have to manually and painstakingly type in your long generated e-mail/dropbox/etc password. And more.

You generate a shorter password specifically for the printer, just read it from your phone when you need it.

I tried that once, nah not for me.

You’re lucky to have such great memory, but most people do not. Life is too stressful to be also juggling the memories of more than 20 different passwords all the time.

Btw, you said in your other comment:

To the people in here, that gets rude and condescending when I try to tell them

The downvotes aren’t against you, but the comment. Its simply just disagreement with what you said, it isn’t hatred, just so you know.

Many tech companies are headquartered in the USA, because of its relaxed regulations.

Apple, Google, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Nvidia, Qualcomn, just to name a few. And you probably know the political situation of the US. The new administration is gonna take the “relaxed regulations” to a whole new level.

Doesn’t surprise me that this is happening.

No.

I’ll just hope there’s a nerd out there protecting me by verifying the source code.

You can’t expect everyone to do their own research, but general rule of thumb:

Open Source > Close Source

Just as: Democracy > Autocracy

Its probably in a government database somewhere, it’s only inaccessible to you.

Reminds me of this joke (with a modern digital-era spin):

The son is accused of drug trafficking

The father: “I can’t access the cloud drive account on [Site Name]”

The son: “If you ever remember the password and get in, delete the account. That’s where my (drug trade) ledger is”

Overnight, the FBI filed subpoena to the cloud company requesting a copy of any files on any of [the father]'s accounts. Within days, the company compiled and send the info to the FBI.

[The son]'s defence attorney got a copy of the files due to the discovery process, and passed it on to the father.

The father: “Son, I don’t know how, but your lawyer just sent me an email this afternoon with all the family photos”

(Original Thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37145912/18347741)

You could continue using Lemmy.

To maintain anonymity:

Create a new account over Tor or No-Log VPN, never log in using a Real IP address, never share personal identifiable information, and never share your username (or instance name) with anyone IRL.

When using any public forum, you cannot resonably expect privacy, but anonymity is what you should be looking for.

No, I mean the context is, when you buy a phone from Best Buy, the sales person uses deceptive language to frame it as if your phone will not function unless you purchase a plan by asking “Would you like to activate your phone right now”, implying its locked and can’t even be used for Google Voice/VOIP calls, and as a multi-function tool (GPS, Camera, Notes, E-Reader, Audio Recorder, etc…).

Deceptive Corporatist language.

Correct. But SIM =/= Phone

You have heard of the concept of using your phone as a Wifi-Only Device, right?

Perhaps it isn’t exactly a new term, but I hate that term regardless. A smartphone can do many things without a cellular connection, a cell plan is not an “activation” but a feature upgrade.

Not sure if this fits this comm, but I hate that the act of buying a phone plan and inseting a sim card is now referred to as “activation”.

“Activation” is the iPhone forced internet-setup thing, not the fact that you use wifi-only instead of cellular. 🤦‍♂️

In America at least, “law enforcement” (Police, Ice, CBP) aren’t allowed to force you to enter your password

Might wanna rethink that. If you aren’t a citizen, they could just threaten to send you to el salvador if you refuse to unlock (and maybe still do it after you complied). Even judges are getting arrested by the gestapo, I don’t feel safe even as a citizen. These are not normal times, I wouldn’t put so much faith on the rule of law.

“Yay, they finally allows access to my machine that I bought and paid for… 🫠”

a few minutes later…

“Wait what now? They added WHAT? 😱 (“Copilot” AI 🤮)”

Eventually, they’re gonna make changing the OS illegal and burn in windows into the hardware. Welcome to the world of tomorrow! 🙃

Lol yea that’s definitely getting demonitized. Somebody please download/archive it.

I usually don’t.

Unless its a food delivery, then I just try to find a white male name, to avoid racial profiling/harassment.

I dont think that really do much in terms of privacy, the merchant is gonna know who you are. And sometimes they will reject an order if the name used in the order doesn’t match the name of the card holder.

Any card/bank transaction, anything that gets sent to your address, that’s not really something you can have privacy over. Unless you use cash payments and use someone else’s address. Its very difficult to hide financial activity.

Just curious, is it possible for this person to like… transfer any credits earned into like a Canadian university?

Because I’m not sure how much of use is a US diploma is if the country collapses.

Why is there a red dot on the hand? My cat ran over and PAWed my phone out of my hand.

trump: fucks up the US economy, then dies

vance: “IT WAS THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENT’S FAULT!” (technically correct, his predecessor was trump)

absolute “5D Chess” lmfao 🤣

At this rate, they’re gonna be deporting the prime minister of Canada, the pope, and king of England, when they visit in 2026