Increase in hacked accounts posting advertising content

[mediocrepoet]

Just require all forum members to tattoo a barcode in their ass for login.

One Ontopoly is more than enough, thank you.

 

[Raghar]

Let me help some people out.

The classic example of 2fa is using an ATM. In order to authenticate yourself at an ATM, you need two factors: a PIN and a bank card. If someone gets your PIN by watching you punch it in over your shoulder, they can't withdraw your money because they need your card. If someone steals your wallet and gets your card, they can't withdraw your money because they need the PIN. They need both things. Having a strong password is only one factor.

Thus they would beat you up and get PIN, then use your bank card. Yea, it's that simple.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Let me help some people out.

The classic example of 2fa is using an ATM. In order to authenticate yourself at an ATM, you need two factors: a PIN and a bank card. If someone gets your PIN by watching you punch it in over your shoulder, they can't withdraw your money because they need your card. If someone steals your wallet and gets your card, they can't withdraw your money because they need the PIN. They need both things. Having a strong password is only one factor.

Thus they would beat you up and get PIN, then use your bank card. Yea, it's that simple.

That's why you carry a gun.

 

[Raghar]

Let me help some people out.

The classic example of 2fa is using an ATM. In order to authenticate yourself at an ATM, you need two factors: a PIN and a bank card. If someone gets your PIN by watching you punch it in over your shoulder, they can't withdraw your money because they need your card. If someone steals your wallet and gets your card, they can't withdraw your money because they need the PIN. They need both things. Having a strong password is only one factor.

Thus they would beat you up and get PIN, then use your bank card. Yea, it's that simple.

That's why you carry a gun.

I don't have money for a gun. Prime minister took loan and send money to Ukraine, now food costs 50 percent more, and I doubt I'd afford a gun, or monthly payments for a card.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Let me help some people out.

The classic example of 2fa is using an ATM. In order to authenticate yourself at an ATM, you need two factors: a PIN and a bank card. If someone gets your PIN by watching you punch it in over your shoulder, they can't withdraw your money because they need your card. If someone steals your wallet and gets your card, they can't withdraw your money because they need the PIN. They need both things. Having a strong password is only one factor.

Thus they would beat you up and get PIN, then use your bank card. Yea, it's that simple.

That's why you carry a gun.

I don't have money for a gun. Prime minister took loan and send money to Ukraine, now food costs 50 percent more, and I doubt I'd afford a gun, or monthly payments for a card.

go to ukraine, pretend to be ukrainian, get free weapons

 

[Raghar]

Let me help some people out.

The classic example of 2fa is using an ATM. In order to authenticate yourself at an ATM, you need two factors: a PIN and a bank card. If someone gets your PIN by watching you punch it in over your shoulder, they can't withdraw your money because they need your card. If someone steals your wallet and gets your card, they can't withdraw your money because they need the PIN. They need both things. Having a strong password is only one factor.

Thus they would beat you up and get PIN, then use your bank card. Yea, it's that simple.

That's why you carry a gun.

I don't have money for a gun. Prime minister took loan and send money to Ukraine, now food costs 50 percent more, and I doubt I'd afford a gun, or monthly payments for a card.

go to ukraine, pretend to be ukrainian, get free weapons

Can't I beat up these 50+ Ukrainians who are near me and get free weapons without going to Ukraine?

 

[OSK]

Let me help some people out.

The classic example of 2fa is using an ATM. In order to authenticate yourself at an ATM, you need two factors: a PIN and a bank card. If someone gets your PIN by watching you punch it in over your shoulder, they can't withdraw your money because they need your card. If someone steals your wallet and gets your card, they can't withdraw your money because they need the PIN. They need both things. Having a strong password is only one factor.

Thus they would beat you up and get PIN, then use your bank card. Yea, it's that simple.

That's why you carry a gun.

I don't have money for a gun. Prime minister took loan and send money to Ukraine, now food costs 50 percent more, and I doubt I'd afford a gun, or monthly payments for a card.

If you can't afford a gun, why are you even afraid of someone stealing the money you don't have?

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

laughs in fingerprint, card and pin bank system.

 

[Apostle Hand]

I use a password manager that generates and saves unique and secure passwords for any site. I recommend doing the same. Bitwarden is a good free one.

good protection but ultimately futile, every password can be cracked

 

[Vic]

I use a password manager that generates and saves unique and secure passwords for any site. I recommend doing the same. Bitwarden is a good free one.

good protection but ultimately futile, every password can be cracked

I think most sites have a cooldown on logins. So you can't just keep spamming a gazillion password combinations or your IP will get locked out. The benefit is to quickly have a secure and unique password if you want to sign up for a site, and have them all easily accessible in a browser extension (or desktop client). The key here is unique, because if one site gets compromised, your other accounts will stay secure, and that's the biggest security concern, because most people I would guess just use the same password everywhere.

There is another lesser layer of protection too: The autofill detection of password managers works by looking at the site adress, so it might also protect you from fake fishing sites in some cases. I know I have seen a fake facebook login page once, in which case the autofill wont trigger.

 

[Peachcurl]

Can't I beat up these 50+ Ukrainians who are near me and get free weapons without going to Ukraine?

Well, can you?

 

[Reggin Backward]

Using a password manager is a terrible idea unless you:

-work a cyber security or IT job and you have like a thousand of passwords to manage.
-are a reddit user

Let's be real here, how many accounts does the average Joe really need? Like 4 or 5, easy to remember or just write them down in a notebook, period. Relying on another piece of software to interact with a computer and do your daily activities is already a flaw.

 

[Ontopoly]

Using a password manager is a terrible idea unless you:

-work a cyber security or IT job and you have like a thousand of passwords to manage.
-are a reddit user

Let's be real here, how many accounts does the average Joe really need? Like 4 or 5, easy to remember or just write them down in a notebook, period. Relying on another piece of software to interact with a computer and do your daily activities is already a flaw.

The average person in 2023 has way more than 5 password.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I have more than 5 passwords related to one job before getting in to my businesses or personal accounts.

 

[Melcar]

My password has 5 passwords.

 

[Reggin Backward]

Like I said it depends on your daily activities and what you require from a computer. It's better to keep a low number of passwords and to not create accounts left and right. It saves you from the headache and it's not worth it, in my opinion.

 

[Dadd]

Just remember your passwords lmao

 

[Ontopoly]

Like I said it depends on your daily activities and what you require from a computer. It's better to keep a low number of passwords and to not create accounts left and right. It saves you from the headache and it's not worth it, in my opinion.

You wouldn't have a headache if you had a password manager. Why isn't it worth it? I have an account for west jet so i can keep track of flights easily. I have an account for my bank so i can manage my money. I have an account for steam so i can play games. I have an account for Netflix so i can watch shows. I have an account for rpgcodex so i can talk about games. I have an account for a clothing shop i frequent so i can get deals. I have an account for Amazon so i can order things.

That's not even most of them. Every single one of those accounts provides utility and convenience, with no downsides because i have a password manager. Please tell me the alternative for 2023 without being someone who rejects every convenience of the modern day. I've never had a headache over having a lot of accounts since i got a password manager. What headache would deleting these accounts save me?

 

[Melcar]

Imaging not memorizing all the logins for your online accounts. Why even bother using computers Bro?

 

[Reggin Backward]

Well for starter you browse and use more websites than me. I don't even use half of the services you mentioned, the only website in your current list we have in common is rpgcodex. I'm not counting the clothing shop since there are plenty and I'm not counting the bank account because it's the case for like 99% of the people online. So I already have less passwords to manage than you simply because I do not need these services. Obviously, I'm not telling every website I frequently browse where I have an account but I can tell you this ; I can count them on my fingers. Therefore I just use my memory, session cookies and my notepad just in case. Like I already said, a password manager makes more sense when you have a lot to manage and by a lot I mean well over 50 accounts. That's my opinion.

 

[Cohesion]

There is also https://winauth.github.io/winauth/ which doesn't require phone or account unlike authy.

 

[Hirato]

Well for starter you browse and use more websites than me. I don't even use half of the services you mentioned, the only website in your current list we have in common is rpgcodex. I'm not counting the clothing shop since there are plenty and I'm not counting the bank account because it's the case for like 99% of the people online. So I already have less passwords to manage than you simply because I do not need these services. Obviously, I'm not telling every website I frequently browse where I have an account but I can tell you this ; I can count them on my fingers. Therefore I just use my memory, session cookies and my notepad just in case. Like I already said, a password manager makes more sense when you have a lot to manage and by a lot I mean well over 50 accounts. That's my opinion.

Even if it's only 5 accounts, you'd still be better off with a password manager.
A key feature being that it encrypts the database and keeps a history, so if you ever do get rekt, you have plenty of time to change your passwords before the hackers could decrypt the database and make your life hell.

Something like KeepassXC also offers a great pool of utility features, including obscurance from any screen capture software, browser integration so it can autofill passwords if you explicitly give permission.
And two of importance to me, file monitoring and database merging.

I've personally set up a cloud file service to synchronise the database across all of my various devices, so that if I make a change anywhere, it will sync across to the other devices, and they'll automatically open them and merge any unsaved changes.
I also take semi regular back ups of it, since I'd be quite screwed if it ever got lost.

 

[Norfleet]

I think most sites have a cooldown on logins. So you can't just keep spamming a gazillion password combinations or your IP will get locked out. The benefit is to quickly have a secure and unique password if you want to sign up for a site, and have them all easily accessible in a browser extension (or desktop client). The key here is unique, because if one site gets compromised, your other accounts will stay secure, and that's the biggest security concern, because most people I would guess just use the same password everywhere.

Of course, none of this matters if you're just going to link everything to an email account, which provides a single point of failure for every account, or dox yourself by sharing your real-life data like your phone in the Interwebs, at which point your entire security is completely void.

 

[Ontopoly]

I think most sites have a cooldown on logins. So you can't just keep spamming a gazillion password combinations or your IP will get locked out. The benefit is to quickly have a secure and unique password if you want to sign up for a site, and have them all easily accessible in a browser extension (or desktop client). The key here is unique, because if one site gets compromised, your other accounts will stay secure, and that's the biggest security concern, because most people I would guess just use the same password everywhere.

Of course, none of this matters if you're just going to link everything to an email account, which provides a single point of failure for every account, or dox yourself by sharing your real-life data like your phone in the Interwebs, at which point your entire security is completely void.

Have an extremely secure email and password manager password that can be remembered, everything else can be extremely complicated and not easy to remember. It's a lot easier to make and remember 2 really good passwords, where as people without password managers reuse passwords, even on sketchy sites, and with the 20 passwords they need to remember they opt for weaker passwords so they can actually remember them.

 

[Vic]

I think most sites have a cooldown on logins. So you can't just keep spamming a gazillion password combinations or your IP will get locked out. The benefit is to quickly have a secure and unique password if you want to sign up for a site, and have them all easily accessible in a browser extension (or desktop client). The key here is unique, because if one site gets compromised, your other accounts will stay secure, and that's the biggest security concern, because most people I would guess just use the same password everywhere.

Of course, none of this matters if you're just going to link everything to an email account, which provides a single point of failure for every account, or dox yourself by sharing your real-life data like your phone in the Interwebs, at which point your entire security is completely void.

Have an extremely secure email and password manager password that can be remembered, everything else can be extremely complicated and not easy to remember. It's a lot easier to make and remember 2 really good passwords, where as people without password managers reuse passwords, even on sketchy sites, and with the 20 passwords they need to remember they opt for weaker passwords so they can actually remember them.

why two? I know only one password, that of my password manager. The passwords for my email accounts are saved in there too. I take extra precaution and regenerate maximum security passwords for my emails every year or so, just in case. Also have 2FA enabled.

It happens quite often, depending on how shady the sites are that you sign up on, that their database gets compromised, this is a website that can show you if that happened to your data:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/