On Sat, 06 Jul 2024 21:13:49 -0500,
haley@involuntarily_Invalidated.net wrote:
>On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 22:23:36 -0000, Stefan Claas
>wrote:
>
>>carson@percida.net wrote:
>
>>> On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 20:27:00 -0000, Stefan Claas
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > carson@percida.net wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Found this page.
>>> > > https://argon2.online/
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > Nice, but I would not use an online tool
>>> > for generating strong password key ... ;-)
>>>
>>> Yeah, I should have mentioned that.
>>>
>>> Anyway - have you any idea how many, many online diary sites exist?
>>>
>>> How can anybody of average intelligence not figure out what a problem
>>> that could generate?
>>
>>What problem dou you think it is when choosing a strong password/salt
>>for Argon2id?
>
>You mean using the online version?
>
>Ha!
>
>You just got to figure that anything you post online is going to be
>archived. Another pot of possible ruination are those online password
>checking sites. Yes, I believe people do place their real passwords
>into those sites. Hackers must love those sites and their archive of
>operative passwords.
>
>One can't drive themselves into weirdness over worrying about all this
>Privacy/Security stuff. As Dirty Harry, put it: "A man's got to know
>his limitations."
>
>We non tech users have to know certain fundamentals and give up
>trying to understand the possible peril in every exe or dll file. That
>will drive us dotty. I try just some simple ways to do it.
>
>Don't discuss anything online that's too private or too informative
>about your life. Let the hackers and gov't nazis skim through what is
>little more than everyday drivel - which is what most of Usenet is -
>except for the hate groups like those of politics, religion, race,
>etc.
>
>Watch out for the very personal matters you might search for online.
>That includes even when using such "safe" sites as DuckDuckGo,
>Startpage, etc. A way around that - Tor.
>
>Use Tor.
>
>Yeah, there might be some gov't nodes, but you cannot cover all the
>bases. Tor is more likely to protect you than not. There's no reason
>your health problems or other such personal searches should be
>archived on some search site or other. Such info disclosed to a
>prospective employer might get you rejected. That is only one facet of
>the many that could happen because of information archived from your
>searches. Many hackers have personal information on millions of people
>for sale. Employers see nothing wrong in paying for any secret you
>might not be revealing to them on your job application.
>
>I'm sure there probably is a better way than Tor, but for the non tech
>ignorant ones such as myself, it's there for us without driving us
>weird having to learn any tech stuff. Christman did the same for us
>with QSL. He *really* did a great job for those of us who weren't
>inclined to do all that "wrapping" stuff. Matter of fact, I doubt if
>very many of the average users knew of "wrapping" or the fact of anon
>posting existing.
>
>QSL, it's simple name, simple download, and simple installation
>converted many of the merely curious into users. QSL was a Subject
>which certainly filled apa-s for quite a while.
>
>I'm not going to get into all the super cookie stuff or the
>truthfulness regarding the claims of Security and Privacy claimed all
>the Web browsers of today. All that is beyond my ken. There is
>another way I try for online protection. I mention this for the
>umptieth time even though I have never had a positive response to it.:
>Time Freeze.
>
>What I always get from the mention of ToolWiz's Time Freeze is how it
>is not the ultimate solution. (Tell me an "ultimate solution" to
>anything.) But it does put my C: drive into a type of virtual restore
>mode wherein nothing written to the C: during an online session
>sticks to the drive. Reboot, and the C: goes back to what it was
>before the last session.
>
>I offer the link only because the Author's site, plus many others, no
>longer download the file.
>
>Download from MajorGeeks site. (Author's site is screwed up.)
>https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/toolwiz_time_freeze.html
>
>I've been using it for quite a few years with no other AV or Security
>stuff except for blocking phone calls to home with a firewall. I have
>screwed up a couple of times with Windows settings only to reboot and
>have Windows working again.
>
>Another saving grace which most know about but might not use is
>VirusTotal. Too many users are lazy or in denial anything bad can
>happen to them.
>
>So, for a non tech ignorant, I think I'm doing well. Ain't nothing
>that's 100% fool proof, and I ain't going to go nuts trying to find
>it.
>
>Now, you'll have to excuse me for a while. I ran outta breathe. Yeah,
>it happens even to the long-winded ones.
>
haley@involuntarily_Invalidated.net has now been truly invalidated.
It was me, Carson, who screwed up and used the wrong nym for the post.
Well, look at it this way. It wasn't a total loss. It had to screw up
the nazis and the hacker bunch for a few seconds at least.
(Old people have to learn to go to bed early instead of posting.)
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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