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I intend to retain my independence on the Internet! None of this "cloud" stuff for me! I will have nothing to do with Facebook, and their identity monopoly. I w

by blues 15y ago

I intend to retain my independence on the Internet! None of this "cloud" stuff for me! I will have nothing to do with Facebook, and their identity monopoly. I would much rather just start my own blog: https://en.wordpress.com/signup/ https://en.wordpress.com/signup/ My WordPress.com site can always be transferred to a host of my choosing (especially if I register a similar domain name) (and not at giant GoDaddy). I simply will not post on sites that require Facebook, or Blogger, or Yahoo! accounts to log in. Period. Except for banking (which I try to avoid online) and really special logins, I simply use one very-hard-to-crack password for everything, like "bluefrogsridelogsatsunset". People argue about how hard it is to crack passwords, and what kinds of passwords are secure, but I'm pretty sure that no one (except perhaps the government) can really crack a password such as the one above. This solution is good enough for me!

Joakal 15y ago
> I simply use one very-hard-to-crack password for everything, like "bluefrogsridelogsatsunset". I suggest using the master password to manage other passwords (Browser might have a password manager, Keypass or other tons password managers). Sony, Newegg, Facebook and some other companies can see passwords in plain text which could be used in conjunction with your email or similar contact methods to infiltrate your account.
- blues 15y ago
  I don't use a "generic" password to register at companies; they tend to require credit card transactions, etc. I actually do use KeePass for several things, and I think it really is more secure than my "simple solution." Plus it keeps my data in a nifty portable "*.kdb" file. But it's just a bit clumsier to utilize. I don't use the Firefox password manager, which updates often; who knows what might happen when it does? KeePass is available at: http://keepass.info/ http://keepass.info/

by blues 15y ago

Joakal 15y ago

> I simply use one very-hard-to-crack password for everything, like "bluefrogsridelogsatsunset". I suggest using the master password to manage other passwords (Browser might have a password manager, Keypass or other tons password managers). Sony, Newegg, Facebook and some other companies can see passwords in plain text which could be used in conjunction with your email or similar contact methods to infiltrate your account.

blues 15y ago
I don't use a "generic" password to register at companies; they tend to require credit card transactions, etc. I actually do use KeePass for several things, and I think it really is more secure than my "simple solution." Plus it keeps my data in a nifty portable "*.kdb" file. But it's just a bit clumsier to utilize. I don't use the Firefox password manager, which updates often; who knows what might happen when it does? KeePass is available at: http://keepass.info/ http://keepass.info/