2023 Security Check-up Reminder

Soup Sammiches said:
Password is a good password, fight me.
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One thing is that a password manager is surely best (for most) in some wholly or reasonable off-line form, like a good quality notebook locked in a safe or even old device not connected to anything or an archive whose password is in aforesaid notebook. As mentioned above, password managers aren't invulnerable and I'm not trusting some random I don't know personally.
 
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Prj4MW8iPT3vmFM2rzDc said:
I use a unique password for/to every login(nothing shares as pw) i have that is the maximum characters the system/site allows that is randomized upper case characters, lower case characters, numbers, allowed symbols for the system/site, and unicode ascii if possible.

Am I doing it correctly?
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Now I know that you do that, hihihi:christine:
 
No. 7 cat said:
One thing is that a password manager is surely best (for most) in some wholly or reasonable off-line form, like a good quality notebook locked in a safe or even old device not connected to anything or an archive whose password is in aforesaid notebook. As mentioned above, password managers aren't invulnerable and I'm not trusting some random I don't know personally.
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I do a sloppier approach of this and never write actual passwords, just keywords and phrases that remind me of the passwords. But I do have pretty inconsistent criteria between my older and newer passwords which makes it harder tp keep tabs, so may do a full password reset flr all my relevant shit and go for long phrase lile passwords instead.
 
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Another good thing to remember just for general security is to change your routers default username / password. Far too many of them are the default of admin/admin and the like which obviously isn't very secure. While you are at it change your routers default IP address and subnet mask, making it not the default makes it at least a bit harder to even attempt to access your router without physical access to the network.

Note that some ISPs don't let you mess with the router they provide, another step is to use your own equipment if said ISP doesn't actively prevent you from doing so. BT and most Bongistani ISPs do allow it but it will vary by country. If you want to be really autistic about it make sure you get a router that can have open source third party software flashed onto it like Openwrt or DDWRT to help close any security vulnerabilities that the ISPs don't ever fix in their routers. There are also forks of some default router software where people have fixed the issues that the manufacturer doesn't like Voxel for some Netgear routers or Merlin for some Asus routers.

Also change away from your ISPs DNS servers and use one that isn't going to enforce censorship on you (many of the ISP ones will block known pirate sites/content for instance)

Remember security, be it physical or digital is about slowing the attacker down enough to make it not worth it and they move on.

 
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