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Heard of haveibeenpwned? You'll end up there, eventually.
by bjourne 8mo ago
Heard of haveibeenpwned? You'll end up there, eventually.
- vikaveri 8mo agoIf you end up, for some reason, being one of those unlucky individuals whose Google account gets banned and all your other accounts are behind Google login, then you truly have been owned.
- Nextgrid 8mo agoEnding up on HaveIBeenPwned is only a problem if you reuse passwords.
- bjourne 8mo agoNope. It is a problem if you reuse email addresses.
- palata 8mo agoAre you saying that you reuse the same password everywhere, but a different email address every time, and you feel confident that having your password leaked won't have repercussions? I am genuinely confused. Sounds like holding a gun from the wrong end and feeling protected by it.
- bravetraveler 8mo agoRisk Bob's Salad Shack leaking an inconsequential, unique, credential or bind everything to the whims and identity of a single organization; hmm.
- danelski 8mo agoSign-on with the external identity provider doesn't help if data related to your account like the billing information, your government ID info etc. are released in the breach, that's the sore point.
- wraptile 8mo agoPeople will know that my password was y!2TvM8h3dpvw4 for one particular website at some point. What do I lose here? Google/Apple incurs much greater risk that is entirely out of your control.
- zelphirkalt 8mo agoYou mean when using "sign in with" and then using a shitty password for your social media account? If you use e-mail and password with a good password manager, that runs locally on your device and generate good random passwords, it is unlikely you will end up on haveibeenpwned, and even if one website does shit, the blast radius is only one account on one website.
- bjourne 8mo agoYou'll still have your e-mail address exposed, which you may not want if it is to some random porn site. Moreover, password managers do not work if you use multiple devices for log in, which most people actually do.
- Sharparam 8mo agoI use my password manager across multiple devices daily. Apparently it has not been working without me noticing it?
- bravetraveler 8mo agoI assume they're thinking about the 'offline' style where one would shuffle a database file and probably resolve conflicts. There's an app/extensions nowadays, man! I don't even bother with a VPN, just occasionally push a 'sync' button on the roaming devices [when they return to LAN]. DB transactions [new credentials] averages ~0 per month... but there's plenty of capacity. Works extremely well.
- raincole 8mo agoPassword manager. Before inevitable "what if your password manager is hacked...," what if your google account is hacked / banned?
- 63stack 8mo agoYou don't even need a password manager, browsers autogenerate secure passwords for you, and they sync between computers/mobile devices. (I'm saying this from the perspective of "regular people don't want to be inconvenienced like that, obviously you should use an external password manager for security)
- palata 8mo agoAgreed. Just wanted to add: > Before inevitable "what if your password manager is hacked My passwords are encrypted with a security key. I think it is more likely for my computer to get compromised than for my password manager to leak the passwords. Admittedly, if I lose all the security keys at the same time, I lose all of my passwords.
- palata 8mo ago- Complains about age verification because it is "not private" - Uses Google SSO to sign in everywhere