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What stupidly easy tech solution do people gloss over all of the time? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they're being spied. Here's the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won't use it or haven't used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can't really spy on you on something that's already off and unplugged!

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

I call this one forbidden knowledge because I see it so little in public, but I'm sure it's well known in privacy communities: A password like "I have this really secure password that I type into computers sometimes" is a much stronger and easier to memorize password than "aB69$@m". It seems more often than not I find networks where the SSID is a better password than the WPA key.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I agree - I do use passphrases in some critical cases which I don't want to store in a password manager.

However, I believe passphrases are theoretically more susceptible to sophisticated dictionary type attacks, but you can easily mitigate it by using some less-common 1337speak character replacements.

Highly recommend a password manager though - it's much easier to remember one or two complex master keyring passwords & the random generated passwords will easily satisfy any application's complexity requirements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's basically what I do, I know the passphrase to decrypt my drive, and the one to open Bitwarden and then I basically let that just handle everything else.

Oh and the sudo one I guess.

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