This is why I think most of these stories are bullshit. If someone is good enough to automate a job to the point where they don't even need the person that wrote the script to maintain it, put that fucker in charge of automating more stuff! Or, at the very least, put them in a position where their talents are actually useful.
At best, the writer Brian Merchant is a gullible idiot; at worst, he is a talentless hack. Believing a confession bear story and writing an entire article about it. he is either lazy or a moron. Maybe both.
I can't remember specifically, but I think his name has shown up on other clickbait low-rent stories like this before.
I think the bigger danger isn't what is stored on the phone, but access to the owner's social media, banking, and cloud storage accounts. A wiped phone can't leak any of those things.
Yeah, next you will be telling them not to have incriminating evidence on a phone they carry around with them, or send messages with illegal content from their personal device.
Anti-trans bigotry from the left at a Pride March should shock and appal you. Why doesn't it?
Because I find it hilarious.
And I greatly support trans and etc rights. Its the fact that there are people that are using it to push their own agendas that is causing this. The hypocrisy coming out of the radical left is hilarious.
Well, I suppose I find it both appalling and hilarious. If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?
Yeah, but multiple individual user accounts at LastPass can view the same set of passwords. (We use it for company shared accounts and passwords.) So the user's password does not encrypt the password (for LastPass, at least).
Maybe they encrypt the company shared password with the user's password, I don't know. And that is the reason why I don't use it for things that matter, such as my personal passwords.
The online-based password fillers have to keep the key on the server side, you can access the unencrypted passwords via the website once you log in. Hopefully they would keep separate keys for each user. But it is only a matter of time before one of them gets hacked or man-in-the-middled.
With KeePass, even if you store your vault in the cloud, the master key or password is not there.
However you are right about the usefulness of any encryption. It is only to make it prohibitively expensive or time consuming to break in to. Any password safe should not be a replacement for regularly rotating passwords and security questions. If anything, they should make this practice easier, since there is no need to remember the passwords.
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In fact, There are Giant Clouds of Alcohol Floating in Space.
If the highest point in your life was a as a teenager, I hope you died young.
You should sue the maker of the app to support your phone.
I mean boycotting Sony isn't much of an option if you like to play video games.
The only other options are Microsoft who are just as bad, or Nintendo who don't have a lot of the games you want.
Or, PC Master race.
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Are you going to post this same comment in reply to everyone on this post?
Oh, so this is one of those kinds of threads, where logic and reasoned debate take a back seat?
Ok, bye.
As opposed to what? I thought that was the only kind of thread we have around here.
McDonnell Douglas ruined Boeing.
You're not kidding. This article was from 18 years ago, and is still true today:
http://archive.fortune.com/mag...
"McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money."
This is why I think most of these stories are bullshit. If someone is good enough to automate a job to the point where they don't even need the person that wrote the script to maintain it, put that fucker in charge of automating more stuff! Or, at the very least, put them in a position where their talents are actually useful.
At best, the writer Brian Merchant is a gullible idiot; at worst, he is a talentless hack. Believing a confession bear story and writing an entire article about it. he is either lazy or a moron. Maybe both.
I can't remember specifically, but I think his name has shown up on other clickbait low-rent stories like this before.
He is suffering from covfefe withdrawal.
Are we playing the game of Questions?
Actually this is the first I've heard of it. If only we had some way to send a message to every phone in the country to inform us about the test...
I think the bigger danger isn't what is stored on the phone, but access to the owner's social media, banking, and cloud storage accounts. A wiped phone can't leak any of those things.
The coffee is also poisoned.
That's bad
But it comes with a free frogurt!
As long as the bot making bots don't pretend to be people...
Except they don't know that his device has been wiped until after they have decided he is guilty of being arab and decide to search him.
The coffee is also poisoned.
Except I bet they don't sign an agreement to what they can and cannot do with the information they collect.
Yeah, next you will be telling them not to have incriminating evidence on a phone they carry around with them, or send messages with illegal content from their personal device.
Anti-trans bigotry from the left at a Pride March should shock and appal you. Why doesn't it?
Because I find it hilarious.
And I greatly support trans and etc rights. Its the fact that there are people that are using it to push their own agendas that is causing this. The hypocrisy coming out of the radical left is hilarious.
Well, I suppose I find it both appalling and hilarious. If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?
Yeah, but multiple individual user accounts at LastPass can view the same set of passwords. (We use it for company shared accounts and passwords.) So the user's password does not encrypt the password (for LastPass, at least).
Maybe they encrypt the company shared password with the user's password, I don't know. And that is the reason why I don't use it for things that matter, such as my personal passwords.
That is pretty interesting. We use LastPass at work, but I have never dug deep into how it works. I don't trust it enough for my personal use.
But it seems that since they are using reversible encryption, that anyone getting access to their database can decrypt your passwords.
I want one that the alarm is "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
If their yard is desert shrubs and cacti, they probably live in an area where that is the natural landscape.
Dumping water on grass in a place like that causes it to evaporate and put water vapor in the air.
The online-based password fillers have to keep the key on the server side, you can access the unencrypted passwords via the website once you log in. Hopefully they would keep separate keys for each user. But it is only a matter of time before one of them gets hacked or man-in-the-middled.
With KeePass, even if you store your vault in the cloud, the master key or password is not there.
However you are right about the usefulness of any encryption. It is only to make it prohibitively expensive or time consuming to break in to. Any password safe should not be a replacement for regularly rotating passwords and security questions. If anything, they should make this practice easier, since there is no need to remember the passwords.