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re: Weird blackmail email I got
Posted on 2/19/21 at 7:32 am to Bunk Moreland
Posted on 2/19/21 at 7:32 am to Bunk Moreland
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The one thing that freaked me out on a few of those is they had old passwords for some things like my work outlook.
That’s how they get a lot of people. In reality, they got your password from some sort of data breach (there have been plenty of major ones over the years). They buy a register of names, email addresses, passwords, and whatever else is available.
Which leads me to another point - if you have an email account that’s been using the same password for multiple years and you’ve used that password for any other websites/services, chances are pretty good that somebody, somewhere has access to your email account.
I’m not one of those password complexity freaks, but everyone should really have a separate password for their email accounts with 2FA enabled, if available, to prevent identity theft.
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 7:52 am to lostinbr
I believe passwords should be Mnemonics and different for everything.
For bs sites like car forums and news sites. I use stupid simple passwords. Though for sites I use more I do 2fa and Mnemonics.
Like my old TD password.
I post here as Napoleon from New Orleans.
IphaNfr504
I don't use that one anymore, but it's a phrase tied to the site I'm on that only I knew that I shortened into a password.
You can use symbols and such too in place of words great for at or and.
I never did this until I was riding a subway in New York and they had this info ad about making all your passwords Mnemonics to make your passwords almost impossible to guess.
For bs sites like car forums and news sites. I use stupid simple passwords. Though for sites I use more I do 2fa and Mnemonics.
Like my old TD password.
I post here as Napoleon from New Orleans.
IphaNfr504
I don't use that one anymore, but it's a phrase tied to the site I'm on that only I knew that I shortened into a password.
You can use symbols and such too in place of words great for at or and.
I never did this until I was riding a subway in New York and they had this info ad about making all your passwords Mnemonics to make your passwords almost impossible to guess.
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