Privacy

35833 readers

232 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Hackers know half of passwords entered online, Cloudflare finds (cybernews.com)

submitted 3 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] tfm@europe.pub 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why not use a password manager?

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

BitWarden now supports passkeys and has a free 2FA app.

No excuses not to be as secure as possible anymore.

[–] ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm split between a work pc, mobile, and home pc... It could work for 90% of cases. I never trusted a password manager though.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

KeePass doesn't rely on any third party, and if you choose to use a third party file storage to hold your password vault, it's encrypted

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Single point of failure and a separate entity has all of your passwords and you have to continue paying them or lose access to everything. Sounds like a terrible idea to me

[–] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are password managers you can self host. Bitwarden being one of them. Secure it as much as you want and keep off-site encrypted backups if you're worried about a single point of failure.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Ah, yes, because self hosting is feasible for everyone

/s if that's not obvious

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

there should be a keepass+syncthing package available for normal people to use, i put keepass and syncthing on all my devices and that means I don't have to host a server while always having my password vault synced

[–] shadshack@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

You're right. It's better to just not use a password manager and use the same password on every site you go to.

/s if that's not obvious