Subj : front door & grab your keys
To   : Warpslide
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jun 13 2021 21:04:00

Hello Warpslide!

** On Thursday 10.06.21 - 10:41, Warpslide wrote to August Abolins:

 W> I've use a password manager for several years & have
 W> accumulated just over 400 items in mine.

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 W> Other things are more important like my Gmail account.  For
 W> most of my accounts I don't know my password.  I've used my
 W> password manager to generate the password and it's stored
 W> in there.

The system generated ones are the worst. I'll let the browser  
save those, but some I would promptly replace with my own  
formula. At first I wasn't sure if I could stick with the  
formula so as to be able to recreate the passwords I needed,  
but the more I started doing it the easier it became.

I don't even bother remembering my PIN for my cards. I simply  
picked a PATTERN and SEQUENCE that made sense to me and made  
that whatever number it came to.


 W> Some sites are a PITA to recover from MFA.  Like Linkedin
 W> for example I had to scan my driver's license & sent it to
 W> them to get my account back. Years later they had a data
 W> breach, so I feel super good about that decision...

I never bothered fulfilling my account details on Linkedin. I  
registered an account not long after they launched. The  
benefits of like-minded community sounded appealing, but it  
wasn't long until I started getting unknown people wanting me  
to add them.  That constant barrage of maintenance frustrated  
me It just started to feel like another FB. I was already on  
another kind of community with the IEEE any way (@ieee.org)   
That, and IEEE's roster of members was good enough.  But I  
found that professional people like myself rarely bothered with  
the social media stuff.

Regarding the copy of your driver's license and the subsequent  
data breach.. outch.
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