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When you're using a password, you're entrusting that password to: - Your web browser (which you're entrusting with a WHOLE LOAD of things by the way) - Your o

When you're using a password, you're entrusting that password to: - Your web browser (which you're entrusting with a WHOLE LOAD of things by the way) - Your operating system (Same same) - A crapload of software that runs locally, depending on which OS you're running - That security camera behind you in the Starbucks you're working from - That guy sitting next to you in the metro looking at your phone. Surely you're using a privacy screen, I hope? - Whoever manufactured your computer's hardware - Whichever god you're praying to if any. Hopefully your password isn't naughty. Hey, you know, just... don't be a smartass with people. opsec is extremely difficult, and there's always a thing to find to victim-blame. I mean, fuck, Lastpass didn't have great reputation in the first place (they fucked up several times in the past) and people should be using bitwarden/1password/keepassxc, not LP. That is STILL NOT A REASON to victim-blame.

nix23 4y ago
Your examples are like telling everyone that smoking and drinking can be deadly but then jumping off a cliff....bravo! jumping off a cliff = giving all your passwords to a 3rd party smoking = showing the starbuck-cam your single doted password
- scrollaway 4y ago
  You could simply apologize to the GP instead of tripling down on snark, here and in sibling comments. Whatever happens makes no difference to me personally, it's more about making HN a nicer place.
  - nix23 4y ago
    >You could simply apologize to the GP instead of tripling down on snark No why? It's wrong to give your password to a 3rd party, you cant be a victim if you jump of a cliff all by yourself...so no victim-blaming here...the victims could be the (theoretical) customers of him. And btw i never called him "smartass"....so i would say if anything the "apologize"-thing is on the other side, but no feelings hurt ;) Oh and you used that word too...so much for a nicer HN and victim-blaming ;)

nix23 4y ago

Your examples are like telling everyone that smoking and drinking can be deadly but then jumping off a cliff....bravo! jumping off a cliff = giving all your passwords to a 3rd party smoking = showing the starbuck-cam your single doted password

scrollaway 4y ago
You could simply apologize to the GP instead of tripling down on snark, here and in sibling comments. Whatever happens makes no difference to me personally, it's more about making HN a nicer place.
- nix23 4y ago
  >You could simply apologize to the GP instead of tripling down on snark No why? It's wrong to give your password to a 3rd party, you cant be a victim if you jump of a cliff all by yourself...so no victim-blaming here...the victims could be the (theoretical) customers of him. And btw i never called him "smartass"....so i would say if anything the "apologize"-thing is on the other side, but no feelings hurt ;) Oh and you used that word too...so much for a nicer HN and victim-blaming ;)