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Old 21 May 2017, 01:05 AM   #12
jarland
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Yeah I'm in so many leaks it's insane. Search "jarland@mac.com" for the fun of it.

These days it's not even a question of whether you'll be compromised if you sign up for a lot of internet services. It's about damage control. Using 2FA everywhere you can, using passwords designed to take impossibly long to crack by reasonable means. Unique passwords everywhere, never the same one twice. Rotate anything of importance regularly. A solid and locally controlled password manager is also key to surviving in today's internet.

Now, I'll step down from the security pedestal that we nerds tend to get on for one thing. Your security should be relative to the value of the data behind it. Would I have an eye scanner on my shed where I keep only a broken down lawn mower? Of course not. If you honestly don't care who gets into it, and what's inside is of no consequence, don't perform security theater. You just do you at that point
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