I just use engine model codes and body series# with special characters. Most of them are not even from the same vehicle so I doubt any one can remember. Shit sometimes I even forget what engine I coded with a certain vehicle. And then I get the you “can’t used the same password” which was enter previously to login.
The National Guard is not a militia, and it definitely isn’t the kind of militia you need the right to bear arms for. Militias are organizations of armed civilians that can respond to local events, while the Guard largely fulfills the role it’s under government control and does not meet any of the qualifications intended by the 2nd.
The intentions of the 2nd are relatively clear, historically. To have a population capable of defending itself from enemies, including their own government, arms must be legal and available.
Of course, the biggest supporters of the 2nd were the southern states. It also very clear, historically, that they were mostly worried about slave revolts. The rest of the support came from eternal border conflicts with native tribes.
It’s also very clear that they knew militias weren’t worth a whole lot in a pitched battle, only the Swamp Fox really saw them have any success, by generally being a, you know, terrorist.
Which is a lot of the problem with the modern concept of anti-government militia.
We don’t have slaves to repress, we don’t have Indians to genocide, all they’ve got left to do is plan on being insurgents. And there is a very thin line between that and a terrorist.
Still, I tend to agree with other radical thinkers on the matter.
The workers must not be disarmed, lest revolution against tyrannical systems become impossible instead of merely improbable.
The problem is it’s, quite frankly, just too late for America. We’ll choke to death before the people know their enemies.
Except the national guard is the closest analog to the well armed militia mentioned in the 2nd amendment. The founders didn’t think highly of a federal military, so the 2nd amendment was written to empower the states to organize their own militias that could be called upon when necessary. These effectively went away with the founding of the national guard since the Federal government ultimately also has control over the national guard and the 2nd amendment was interpreted to give the states freedom to regulate guns. This was the understanding until starting 2008.
Try forty or fifty years, unless you got your first job at 40. Unless you’re a boomer, you aren’t even getting full social security until 67 and unless you saved like a motherfucker you probably won’t retire till your 70s.
Everyone talks about password managers these days, but isn’t that telling the hackers exactly where to go to get all your passwords? Seems like a much higher chance of catastrophic failure to me if you have a single point of entry.
I use the same password for every site, but I put the name of the site at the end of the password.
For example:
NotmypassB3ta.
NotmypassGoogle.
NotnypassLemmy. Etc.
I figure it might stop the most lazy of attacks.
That annoys me so much. Especially when the randomly generated line noise password I’m using doesn’t happen to include one of the three punctuation characters they need to be “secure”.
It will stop a lot of attacks but if someone figures it out, you’re screwed. So I don’t recommend it.
But years ago I used the same password everywhere except with a few differences due to different requirements (like special characters) and the weakest passwords I used got leaked on pastebin (or similar). And sure enough many accounts got compromised, not a huge deal and I didn’t lose anything I cared about.
The interesting part is that no-one seemed to try the leaked password + 1234 or a capital letter in the beginning.
That sounds not ya I’m sure it stops a , as long as the actual password is also strong. IMO there’s still some vulnerability. If someone finds out your password and notices thepattern ‘pass+Site’, then they mighttryyon another site.
Also why it’s a good idea to have a few emails yo use across multiple sites.
Security and convenience are opposites. You have to decide if you want a local-only manager that is more secure, a sync service like syncthing that you can set up yourself, or a third-party cloud app like LastPass (which has been compromised at least once that I know of).
Personally I just do all my email and banking on my desktop at home, and it’s actually only inconvenienced me a few times over the years.
the only thing that gets less secure is more devices potentially compromised, but the act of syncing shouldn’t make it more dangerous by itself (if using a key file or a master password too long to be reasonably cracked), right?
I store mine in a selfhosted Nextcloud instance accessible only via a Nebula overlay network (alternative to tailscale) and it’s both convenient and secure.
I’m using KeepassXC, which has a browser integration that is quite good, and a local database. I synchronize it to my devices (using Syncthing, so it’s p2p). The database is encrypted with a pretty good password, and a key file. the key file has never and will hopefully never be transported via internet. The database is synced to a server I’ve rented as well, but never the key.
It’s not perfect, but potential attackers would need to
a) have access to one of my daily devices (the server won’t be enough, since they need the key file)
b) crack my password
Obviously, for someone dedicated this is still quite reasonable, but then again, I don’t think that’s my threat profile. The chance of getting caught up in a larger breach is a basically zero once you use your own solution, and it should be reasonably safe, if you don’t do anything stupid.
But yeah, I’m quite happy with it. KeepassXC is a local password manager, and Syncthing lets you synchronize files and folders across devices, and it uses Peer-to-Peer (p2p) technology, so unlike something like Google drive you’re not relying on some could server, it just transfers between your devices directly.
It’s not plug and play to install, but not that hard either. But still, I can see that commercial options are a lot easier for many people c:
I store mine in a selfhosted Nextcloud instance, KeepassDX on Android supports accessing it directly. Works perfectly and even provides an autofill service for Android. Very easy and very convenient.
you literally described the exact use case for password managers. in security, it’s not about IF you get breached, it’s WHEN and how to recover from it. this includes cloud password managers. you can hack all the data you want from these companies but any reputable password manager company will employ a Zero Trust model where your data is stored encrypted. they can completely upend the company and destroy their whole infrastructure, but they still can’t do shit unless they have your master pass or a time machine.
The greatest threat is password databases being leaked from the services you use. Not your phone or laptop. Physical access to a device is a pretty high security bar.
If you don’t let people make notes of passwords they use one crap memorable password for everything. Let them store it, and advise them to do it somewhere encrypted. Ta da! Password manager.
The main argument to use password managers to prevent password leaks to all of your services (that you use with the same login/email). You can’t trust any service to store your password securely, therefore you should use different ones everywhere.
Using a password manager gives you the convenience of using one, strong password that’s being used very securely, and mitigating risk of password leaks spreading further.
If you abstract it that way, it by no means eliminates the risk of someone breaking into your database, but makes it harder and from a single entry point, instead of any service that uses your password.
Plus many of those password managers give you an option to use YubiKey for additional security.
Oh and also you won’t ever need to press “forgot password” ever again due to the arbitrary requirements that your password doesn’t pass, so you modify it slightly so it would.
I would be more upset that we have to eat for the next 30-40 years… work is just the symptom of this fact. To get food you have to either produce it or barter it for some other service.
Eating is a fundamental physiological need. Making money from selling food isn’t. We have the means to feed everyone but it’s nor profitable. The ecomomy is a human fabrication.
Forget the evil economy. Why would anyone producing food give it to you for free while you sit on your ass all day and they worked hard to produce it, even if they have enough?
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