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It was seeing advertisements for it literally everywhere that rubbed me the wrong way. Internet ads, YouTube creator ads, TV ad spots... it felt wrong to me. Then they had a minor breach a few years back that they weren't really forthright about, conveniently just as my subscription was ending.
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On paper it seems pretty equal with Mullvad VPN, I only chose it for the amount of servers. I wanted to be able to choose very specific locations like Argentina and Hungary. Since you could sign up for YouTube Premium for about $1.20 in Argentina with a Wise card (until Wise recently stopped processing ARS). Netflix in Hungary is $5.00, and you only need the VPN once and it will automatically renew at those prices, you could use the free trial to lock in that price if you’re interested. I was using ExpressVPN before this and it kept giving me Brazil prices, and Netflix blocks ExpressVPN’s servers more diligently. I originally signed up for Wise to snatch up some Rubles and sit on them but got blocked by sanctions. Another trick you can do without needing a VPN to save some money is to set your cellphone to paperless billing and change your address to Oregon to avoid paying all taxes. I use a random motel in the sticks as my “location”.
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Aidan said:
Offline password managers exist and would have helped Claire a lot but instead she used her browser to store critical information.

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Sort of a PSA I suppose - this tactic is on the rise and extremely lucrative for bad actors, never allow your browsers to store any information you input into forms on a website. Nothing.
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They had her machine rooted.
 
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quackrock said:
There's an old security saying for authentication: use something you have, something you know, and something you are. (Though the last one is questionable, as biometrics are easily stolen and can't be rotated.)
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The only truly uncrackable crypto is the one-time pad, and even then, you have to be able to exchange the OTP at some point and be sure it's absolutely secure, which pretty much requires meeting on an underground bunker on the dark side of the Moon and even then you can't be sure.
 
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Another reminded - if you up your security game (say go from browser passwords to a password manager) make sure you delete the old ones from the old system and THEN change them.

LastPass bitches are getting old backups hacked because it was weakly encrypted.

This would also apply if you add a yubikey to your password manager.

Your email password(s) should be one you have memorized AND two-factored.

Note that if you have app passwords for email clients you should rotate those if you suspect compromise.
 
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just got done switching from lastpass to bitwarden.. I have over 600 passwords to change... lol. Just changed every email password to like 50+ characters. Also anyone else getting error pages. Like apparently i sent too many requests, when i just got to this page and tried to reply.
 
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They had her machine rooted.
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Proofs?
My understanding is chudbuds admin made her best guess based on the info they acquired. She mentions a password manager but this sounds like "stealer malware" that quickly stole a lot of info, namely browser info. I don't keep up with chudbuds at all so don't know more than that screenshot in the highlight post.
Maybe @australian cryptid can chime in.
 
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Niggers saying free @byuu should be lynched themselves.

@byuu will come back, whenever he wants, if he wants to, because people who AREN'T STUPID NIGGER ROPEBAIT can just... set up another account and not do exactly what they did before.

I mean, it's not like he used 'byuu' everywhere online.
 
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Ralph giving away his password on stream was what finally convinced me to start using a password manager and actively change my passwords using a randomizer. The chudbuds is what solidified my decision.
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You could probably base all of your decisions around doing the opposite of what Ralph has done and end up pretty successful. It's kind of fascinating.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Remember Frens, you should have 3 digital identies. Each identity should have its own unique email and passwords!

You have your Financial Identity for Banks, your Utility Bills, buying shit online and so on
You have your Professional Identity for Work and Social circles
You have your Shit Lord identity for Kiwifarms, and shitposting on Twitter, facebook, etc.

Most important of all, DO NOT CROSS THE STREAMS!
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Lmao I only have one identity online, and that is Barack Hussein Obama. Come at me.
 
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Aidan said:
Proofs?
My understanding is chudbuds admin made her best guess based on the info they acquired. She mentions a password manager but this sounds like "stealer malware" that quickly stole a lot of info, namely browser info. I don't keep up with chudbuds at all so don't know more than that screenshot in the highlight post.
Maybe @australian cryptid can chime in.
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I've got the modpack. I'll run it on Linux with strace and see if I can figure out exactly what it tries to do. Assuming it tries to do anything/doesn't just outright crash on Linux.

I've only got Linux and I'm not going to set up a windows VM with GPU passthrough for this.
 
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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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No, that's very easy for computers to guess. Using 4 random words with no substitutions in the letters is actually harder for it to guess.
 
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