• ____@infosec.pub
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    2 hours ago

    What Google password?

    I don’t intend to browse RMS-style, but I have zero need of a Google account, nor of the major search engines directly.

    I just add layers between myself and that particular company. I still can get their data, but without the creep factor.

    Mostly.

    It’s an imperfect solution, but I’m more comfortable with access by proxy than direct access.

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    I try to change it every other year or so. Then I forget it because I did not type it in and have to reset it to the old one.

    After 5 times of this I’ve just given up and won’t change it until my password is in a common password dictionary

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    12 hours ago

    A couple of years ago. It’s like 30 random characters generated by a password manager, and i have 2fa on. Far more secure than my silly emails warrant. There’s not much there worth stealing.

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    2 days ago

    It is unique and I have MFA enabled so it hasn’t changed in a very long time. As per current security best practices.

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      3 is actually a really easy number to guess (first prime after 2, number of people in a threesome, etc.). You should probably go with 4.

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    2 days ago

    Use a yubikey, password is useless unless hacker can obtain your physical key also

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    A bit over two months ago. I try to go through my password manager to change all my passwords and clean up unused accounts a couple times a year.

  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    Last week. In an effort to de-google as much of my PC as I could the only chromium based browser I have is edge. I used librewolf for general browsing (unlock) and Firefox for porn (unlock and no script). Librewolf has known issues working with YouTube which will cause even the highest speed internet to have YouTube be choppy AF. So I used edge for YouTube. But there is a known big in edge that logs you out of everything when you close the browser. And after a dozen times of 2FA logging in I just said fuck it and changed my Gmail password…and can’t close edge of I want to continue to watch certain channels